Reconstruction:Proto-Mongolic/kökexür

This Proto-Mongolic 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-Mongolic

Etymology

Perhaps from *köke- (“to suck”) +‎ *-xür.

Noun

*kökexür

leather vessel for liquids
snuff bottle

Descendants

Bonan: kokor (Qinghai)
Buryat: хүхүүр (xüxüür)
East Yugur: hküür
Middle Mongol:
Arabic script: [Arabic needed] (kökür) (Rasulid Hexaglot)

Chinese: [Han needed] (go'ur) (Secret History, uncertain)
- Mongolian:
  Written: ᠬᠥᠬᠦᠦᠷ (köküür), ᠬᠥᠬᠦᠭᠦᠷ (kökügür), ᠬᠥᠬᠦᠷ (kökür)
  
  Khalkha: хөхүүр (xöxüür)
  
  Ordos: /ɡʉkʰʉːr/
Written Oirat:
- Kalmyk: көкүр (kökür), күүр (küür) (obsolete, uncertain)
→ Kyrgyz: көөкөр (köökör)
→ Khakas: кӧгӧр, кӱгер (küger)
→ Tuvan: көгээр (kögeer)
→ Yakut: көҕүөр (köğüör)
→ Persian: کاکاور (kâkâvor)
→? Hunnic: *kukur
- → Byzantine Greek: κούκουρον (koúkouron), κούκκουρον (koúkkouron)
  - → Medieval Latin: cucurum, cucurus, cucura, coccura
    - → Albanian: kukur (or from Greek)
      - → Romanian: cucură
    - → Proto-West Germanic: *kokur (see there for further descendants)

References

Doerfer, Gerhard (1963) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 16)‎ (in German), volume I, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 451–452
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “кокор”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
Nugteren, Hans (2011) Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation)‎, Utrecht: LOT, page 425
Sanžejev, G. D., Orlovskaja, M. N., Ševernina, Z. V. (2016) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ mongolʹskix jazykov: v 3 t. [Etymological dictionary of Mongolic languages: in 3 vols.] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 138
Tatarincev, B. I. (2004) “көгээр”, in Monguš D. A., editor, Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tuvinskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Tuvan Language] (in Russian), volume III, Novosibirsk: Nauka, pages 226–227

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