On the Proto-Turkic */d₂/ and Mongolic *uda- ‘to be late’
The present study focuses on the Proto-Turkic phoneme */d₂/ in intervocalic position, which can be reconstructed only through external data from Mongolic and other Altaic languages. For this phoneme, four examples are presented. These are *kad₂a ‘rock’, *äd₂iä ‘master, lord’, and *k₂ad₂a- ‘to save,...
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| Language: | English |
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Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University
2023-07-01
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| Series: | Orientalia Suecana |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.uu.se/orientaliasuecana/article/view/216 |
| Summary: | The present study focuses on the Proto-Turkic phoneme */d₂/ in intervocalic position, which can be reconstructed only through external data from Mongolic and other Altaic languages. For this phoneme, four examples are presented. These are *kad₂a ‘rock’, *äd₂iä ‘master, lord’, and *k₂ad₂a- ‘to save, keep safe, take care of something’. The fourth example is Proto-Turkic *ud₂a- ‘to be late’. It yielded the Common Turkic noun *uyag ‘late’ but survived in Mongolic as *uda-.
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| ISSN: | 2001-7324 |