Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/umnït-

This Proto-Turkic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

• *umŋït-

Causative form of *umnï-.

Compare with Proto-Mongolic *umta- (“to sleep; forget”), *umarta- (“to sleep; forget”), Proto-Tungusic *omŋa- (“to forget”), Proto-Uralic *wune- (“to forget”). Whence Finnish unohtaa (“to forget”), Mongolian умартах (umartax, “to forget”) and Even омӈа- (omŋa-, “to forget”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

It seems the reflexes of /m/ only appears in Oghur, Kipchak and Siberian.

*umnït-

1. (transitive) to forget

• *umnïttur- (“to make someone forget”)
• *umnïtčaŋ (“forgetful”)
• *umnï-

• Oghur:
  • Chuvash: ман (man)
• Common Turkic:

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 179
• Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 514
• Sevortjan, E. V. (1974) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Nauka, pages 597-598
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*umnɨ-t- (~ -mŋ-)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill