Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/bẹńi

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

Alternative forms

*bẹŋi

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

*bẹńi

brain

Descendants

Oghur:
- Chuvash: миме (mime)
Common Turkic:

Arghu: *men
- Khalaj: [script needed] (mein)
Oghuz: *beyni
- Old Anatolian Turkish: [script needed] (beyni)
  - Azerbaijani: beyin
  - Ottoman Turkish: بینی‎ (beyni)
    - Turkish: beyin
- >? Salar: beynianqan (“stupid”)
- Turkmen: beýni
Karluk:
- Karakhanid: مَنِكٖي‎ (meŋi)[1]
  - Chagatai:
    - Uyghur: مىڭە‎ (mi'nge)
    - Uzbek: miya
Kipchak: *meyi
- North Kipchak:
  - Bashkir: мейе (meye)
  - Tatar: ми (mi)
- West Kipchak:
  - Crimean Tatar: miy
  - Karachay-Balkar: мыйы (mıyı)
  - Karaim: мий
  - Kumyk: мий (miy)
- South Kipchak:
  - Caspian:
    - Karakalpak:
    - Kazakh: ми (mi)
    - Nogai:
  - Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
    - Kyrgyz: мээ (mee)
    - Southern Altai: мее (mee)
Siberian:
- Old Turkic: [script needed] (meyi)
  - Old Kirghiz:
    - Khakas: [script needed] (mii)
    - Shor: [script needed] (miis)
    - Northern Altai: ме (me), мее (mee), меес (mees)
  - Old Uyghur: [script needed] (meyi), [script needed] (meŋi)
- North Siberian:
  - Dolgan: [script needed] (meńii)
  - Yakut: мэйии (meyii)
- South Siberian:
  - Sayan:
    - Tofa: [script needed] (mee)
    - Tuvan: [script needed] (mee)

References

al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074), Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), volume II, 1985 edition, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 299

Clauson, Gerard (1972) An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 346
Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003) Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

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[1] -Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074), Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), volume II, 1985 edition, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 299