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Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/-čin

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
preceding vowel
A / Ï E / I O / U Ö / Ü
*-čïn *-čin *-čun *-čün

See also
  • *-čil

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *-či +‎ -n.

Suffix

*-čin

  1. Suffix used to create bird nouns from verbs or nouns. Also used to form names of predators from names of prey.
    ‎*bālïk (“fish”) + ‎*-čin → ‎*bālïkčïn (“fish-eating bird”). [1]
  • *buruččun (“a type of bird that has the same height as pigeons, red-feathered and flat-beaked”)
  • *borčïn (“gray duck”) [2]
  • *bayïrčïn
  • *bïldurčïn (“quail”)
  • *kȫkerčin (“pigeon, dove”)
  • *čamurčun (“a type of little duck that lives in swamps and lakes; Anas crecca”)
  • *lāčïn (“falcon”) from earlier *ālāčïn[3] (?)

References
  1. Clauson, Gerard (2002) “The Suffixes in Pre-Eighth Century Turkish”, in Studies in Turkic and Mongolic Linguistics, 2nd edition, London: RoutledgeCurzon, →ISBN, page 92
  2. Tekin, Talât, (1969). “Zetacism and Sigmatism in Proto-Turkic”, Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, page: 59
  3. Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “laçin”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Brockelmann, C., 1951, Osttürkische Grammatik der islamischen Litteratursprachen Mittelasiens, Leiden.
  • Caferoğlu, Ahmet (1968) Eski Uygur Türkçesi Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 260) (in Turkish), Istanbul: Edebiyat Fakültesi Basımevi
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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