< Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic

Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/bẹńi

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 forms
  • *bẹŋi
  • *beyŋi

Etymology

A root with puzzling reflexes, according to Clauson. Räsänen compares this reconstruction with Old Uyghur [script needed] (mäŋi, “joy, luck”) and proposes a relation with Hungarian fej, fő, Finnish pää (both inherited from Proto-Uralic *päŋe) and Mongolian [script needed] (heki). Eren (1999)[1], however, calls this comparison into doubt.

Altaicists, on the other hand, reconstruct this proto-form as *beyŋi, which is then compared to Mongolian манлай (manlaj, “forehead”) and Japanese 耳 (mimi, “ear”).

Noun

*bẹńi

  1. brain

Descendants
  • Oghur:
    • Chuvash: миме (mime)
  • Common Turkic:
    • → Middle Mongol: [script needed] (miyi)
  • Arghu: *men
    • Khalaj: [script needed] (mẹi̯n)
  • Oghuz: *beyni
    • Old Anatolian Turkish: [script needed] (beyni)
    • >? Salar: beynianqan (“stupid”)
    • Turkmen: beýni
  • Karluk:
    • Karakhanid: مَنِكٖي (meŋi)[2]
      • Chagatai: [script needed] (meyin)
  • Kipchak: *meyi
    • North Kipchak:
    • West Kipchak:
      • Crimean Tatar: miy
      • Karachay-Balkar: мыйы (mıyı)
      • Karaim: мий
      • Kumyk: мий (miy)
    • South Kipchak:
  • Siberian:
    • Old Turkic: [script needed] (meyi)
      • Old Kirghiz:
      • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (meyi), mʾnky (meŋi)
        • Western Yugur: [script needed] (muŋe, mïŋe)
    • North Siberian:
      • Dolgan: [script needed] (meńii)
      • Yakut: мэйии (meyii)
    • South Siberian:
      • Sayan:
        • Tofa: мәә (mää)
        • Tuvan: мээ (mee)

References
  1. Eren, Hasan (1999) “Proto-Turkic/bẹńi”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 49
  2. al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume II, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 299
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 348
  • Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, pages 70, 334
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.