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Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/bẹ
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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
Usually compared to Proto-Mongolic *bi (“I”) and Proto-Tungusic *bi (“I”).
The Common Turkic form *ben is a result of back formation from the oblique stem *bẹn- with the pronominal-n.[1]
Declension
Declension of *bẹ (pronominal-n declension)
| Singular | |
|---|---|
| Nominative | *bẹ |
| Accusative | *bẹni |
| Genitive | *bẹniŋ |
| Dative | *baŋa |
| Locative | *bẹnte |
| Ablative | *bẹnten |
| Allative 1) | *baŋaru |
| Instrumental 1) | *bẹnin |
| Equative 1) | *bẹnče |
| Similative 1) | *bẹnleyü |
| Comitative 1) | *bẹnligü |
1) The original allative, instrumental, equative, similative & comitative cases have fallen into disuse in many modern Turkic languages.
Postposition
*bẹ
Related terms
- *biŕ (“we”)
Derived terms
- *bẹ-niŋ
- *bẹ-ni
References
- Róna-Tas, András (1999) "CHUVASH AND HISTORICAL MORPHOLOGY", in Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, volume 52, pages 1-15.
- Straughn, Christopher A. (2023), “Sonqori: mä”, in Turkic database at Elegant Lexicon
- 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), 1985 edition, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, pages 31, 339
- Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*bĭ̀”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- Clauson, Gerard (1972), “ben”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 346
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