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Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/-eyin

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
  • *-ayïn
  • *-yin
  • *-yïn

Suffix

*-eyin

  1. (Common Turkic) Suffix forming first-person singular imperative.
    ‎*seb- (“to love”) + ‎*-eyin → ‎*sebeyin (“I must love!”)

See the Wikibooks page about imperatives in Proto-Turkic to learn more about it.

  • *-gil (“suffix forming second-person singular imperative”)
  • *-zün (“suffix forming third-person singular imperative”)
  • *-elim (“suffix forming first-person plural imperative”)
  • *-iŋ (“suffix forming second-person plural imperative”)

Descendants
  • Common Turkic:
  • Oghuz:
    • Turkmen: -aýyn, -eýin
  • Siberian:

References
  • Erdal, Marcel (2004) “-(A)yIn”, in A Grammar of Old Turkic (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 8 Uralic & Central Asian Studies; 3), Brill Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 235
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