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Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/-iĺ

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
*-ïĺ *-iĺ *-uĺ *-üĺ

Etymology

Comparable to Proto-Mongolic *-l (“suffix forming nouns designating abstract ideas from verbs”).[1]

Suffix

*-iĺ

  1. Forms deverbal nouns.
    ‎*ȫk- (“to heap up”) + ‎*-iĺ → ‎*ȫküĺ (“many”)

Usage notes
  1. Unlike in Middle Turkic and onwards, the suffix originally had a dominant vowel.
    ‎*karga- (“to curse”) + ‎*-iĺ → ‎*kargïš (“curse”)
  2. In Common Turkic, upon being affixed into a verb ending in *-š, crasis from *-šVš to *-š occured.
    ‎*kōš- (“to couple”) + ‎*-iĺ → ‎*kōš (“couple”)

Derived terms
Proto-Turkic terms suffixed with *-iĺ

References
  1. Poppe, Nicholas (1974) “-l”, in Grammar of Written Mongolian, Harrassowitz, page 47
  • Erdal, Marcel (1991) Old Turkic Word Formation‎, volume I, Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 262
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page xlv
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “+Iş”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
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