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Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/topïk

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

From *top (“round thing”) +‎ *-ik (diminutive suffix).[1]

The Turkic intervocalic -p- has been changed to intervocalic hiatus in borrowings of Mongolic, to make it suitable for Mongolic phonetics[2]

Noun

*topïk (Common Turkic)

  1. small ball, pellet
  2. knee cap
  3. knee
  4. anklebone; heel bone

Declension

Descendants

  • → Proto-Mongolic: *toyig
    • Mongolian: тойг (tojg, “kneecap”)
    • Buryat: тойн (tojn, “kneecap”)
    • Kalmyk: төң (töñ, “kneecap”)
    • ⇒ Proto-Mongolic: *tobkai
      • Mongolian: туухай (tuuxaj, “a face of an anklebone”)
        • ⇒ Mongolian: туухуу (tuuxuu, “knee-covering, knee warmer”)
      • → Manchu: ᡨᠣᠪᡤᡳᡟᠠ (tobgiya, “knee”)
  • Arghu:
  • Oghuz:
    • Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Turkmen: topuk
  • Karluk:
    • Karakhanid: تُبِقْ (topık, “small ball, pellet; ankle bone”)
      • Uzbek: topiq
      • Uyghur: توپۇق (topuq, “kneecap; patella”)
  • Kipchak:
    • North Kipchak:
      • Bashkir: тубыҡ (tubıq)
      • Tatar: [script needed] (tubıq)
    • West Kipchak:
    • South Kipchak:
      • Caspian:
        • Karakalpak: tobiʻq
        • Kazakh: тобық (tobyq)
        • Nogai: [script needed] (tobıq)
      • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
  • Siberian:
    • North Siberian:
    • South Siberian:
      • Sayan:
        • Tuvan: довук (dovuk)
        • Tofa: [script needed] (to'puq)
      • Yenisei:
        • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (topïq)
        • Khakas: томых (tomıx, “kneecap”)
        • Western Yugur: tōq

References

  1. Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “topuk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  2. Clauson, Gerard (1962) Turkish and Mongolian studies‎, London: Royal Asiatic Society, page 219.
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