Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/yē-

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

Akin to Proto-Mongolic *je-mü- (“to be hungry”), Proto-Tungusic *ǯe-, *ǯep- (“to eat”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Verb

*yē-

(transitive) to eat

Descendants

Oghur:
- Chuvash: ҫи (śi)
Common Turkic:

Arghu:
- Khalaj: yêmək
Oghuz:
- Old Anatolian Turkish:
  - Azerbaijani: yemək
  - Ottoman Turkish: یمك (yemek, yimek)
    - Turkish: yemek
    - Gagauz: imää
- Turkmen: iýmek
- Salar: yigüsi, yegüsi
Karluk:
- Karakhanid: [script needed] (yemek)
  - Uyghur: يېمەك (yëmek)
  - Uzbek: yemoq
Kipchak:
- North Kipchak:
  - Bashkir: ейеү (yeyew, “to eat”) (archaic), Bashkir: ем (yem, “food”)
  - ⇒ Tatar: җим (cim)
- West Kipchak:
  - Crimean Tatar:
  - Karachay-Balkar: [script needed] (ye-)
  - Karaim: [script needed] (ye-)
- South Kipchak:
  - Caspian:
    - Karakalpak: jew
    - Kazakh: жеу (jeu)
    - Nogai: ев (yev)
  - Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
    - Kyrgyz: жөө (jöö)
    - Southern Altai: јиир (ǰiir)
Siberian:
- ⇒ Old Turkic: 𐰘𐰃𐰘𐰇 (y²iy²ü, “eating”)
- Old Uyghur: [script needed] (ye-)
  - Western Yugur: [script needed] (yi-)
- North Siberian:
  - Yakut: сиэ (sie)
  - Dolgan: һиэ (hie)
- South Siberian:
  - Sayan:
    - Tuvan: чиир (çiir)
    - Tofa: чиир (çiir)
  - Yenisei Turkic:
    - Khakas: чирге (çirge)
    - Shor: [script needed] (čii-)

References

[1]
Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jē-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill