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Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/-ŋ

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
*-ïŋ *-iŋ *-uŋ *-üŋ

Etymology

Nişanyan suggests a crasis from an earlier form *-nig from *-n- +‎ *-ig. Comparable to Proto-Mongolic *-ŋ (“suffix forming deverbal nouns”).[1]

Suffix

*-ŋ

  1. Forms deverbal nouns.
    ‎*yal- (“to strip”) + ‎*-ŋ → ‎*yalïŋ (“naked”)

Derived terms
Proto-Turkic terms suffixed with *-ŋ

References
  1. Poppe, Nicholas (1974) Grammar of Written Mongolian, Harrassowitz, page 49
  • Erdal, Marcel (1991) Old Turkic Word Formation‎, volume I, Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 337
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page xlv
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “+In”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
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