Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/yalŋuz

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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

Alternative reconstructions

Etymology

Tekin and Nişanyan both suggest a crasis of *yalïŋ and *ȫŕ (self) thus "bare, lone self". Erdal instead suggests a crasis of *yalïŋ and *us (reason).[1] Clauson's suggestion that it is foreign due to an original *-s is baseless.

Adjective

*yalŋuz

  1. (Common Turkic) alone, lonely

Declension

Descendants

  • Common Turkic: *yalŋuz (alone)

References

  1. ^ Erdal, Marcel (1991) Old Turkic Word Formation, volume I, Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 338