Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/burun

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

Etymology

Probably a deverbal, if so, from *bur- (“to smell”). For possible cognates, see Turkish burcu (“aroma, scent”), Turkish buram buram (“in whirls, billowing (of smell, smoke)”), Karakhanid [script needed] (burïɣ, “something that smells”), Kyrgyz [script needed] (bura-, “to reek strongly”), Uyghur پۇراق (puraq, “smell”), Khakas [script needed] (puru-, “to emit a stench, to burn (of food)”) et cetera (Dybo, 2013).

Noun

*burun

nose
Synonyms: *tumšuk, *kaŋïr, *tāna

Descendants

Arghu:
- Khalaj: burun
Oghuz:
- Old Anatolian Turkish:
  - - Azerbaijani: burun
    - Ottoman Turkish: بورون (burun)
      - Turkish: burun
      - Gagauz: burnu
- East Oghuz:
  - Turkmen: burun
- Uyghur-Oghuz:
  - Salar: purnı
Karluk:
- Karakhanid:
  - Uyghur: بۇرۇن (burun)
  - Uzbek: burun
Kipchak:
- North Kipchak:
  - Bashkir: морон (moron)
  - Tatar: борын (borın)
- West Kipchak:
  - Crimean Tatar: burun
  - Karachay-Balkar: бурун (burun)
  - Kumyk: [Term?], burun
- South Kipchak:
  - Caspian:
    - Kazakh: мұрын (mūryn)
  - Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
    - Kyrgyz: мурун (murun)
    - Southern Altai: мурун (murun)
Siberian:
- North Siberian:
  - Yakut: мурун (murun)
- South Siberian:
  - Yenisei:
    - Khakas: пурун (purun)

References

Dybo, Anna Vladimirovna (2013). Этимологический словарь базисной лексики тюркских языков (in Russian). TOO - Prosper Print. pp. 409-14.
Clauson, Gerard (1972) “burun”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 366-367

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