Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/yalïŋ

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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.

Proto-Turkic

Etymology

From *yal- (to be stripped) +‎ *-ïŋ (cf. *yalïn- (to strip), *yalïm (bare)).

Adjective

*yalïŋ

  1. (Common Turkic) bare, naked
  2. (Common Turkic, figurative) alone, lonely

Declension

Declension of *yalïŋ
singular 3)
nominative *yalïŋ
accusative *yalïŋïg, *yalïŋnï1)
genitive *yalïŋnïŋ
dative *yalïŋka
locative *yalïŋda
ablative *yalïŋdan
allative *yalïŋgaru
instrumental 2) *yalïŋïn
equative 2) *yalïŋča
similative 2) *yalïŋlayu
comitative 2) *yalïŋlïgu
1) Originally used only in pronominal declension.
2) The original instrumental, equative, similative, and comitative cases have fallen into disuse in many modern Turkic languages.
3) Plurality in Proto-Turkic is disputed. See also the notes on the Proto-Turkic/Locative-ablative case and plurality page on Wikibooks.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Proto-Common Turkic: *yalïŋ

References

  • al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yalıŋ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 929
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yalın”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, pages 181-182
  • Sevortjan, E. V., Levitskaja, L. S. (1989) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov (in Russian), volume IV, Moscow: Nauka, page 104
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jạlɨŋ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill