On the Proto-Turkic */d₂/ and Mongolic *uda- ‘to be late’

Authors

  • Orçun Ünal Göttingen University

Keywords:

Proto-Turkic, Mongolic, consonantism, historical phonology, proto-phoneme

Abstract

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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Published

06.07.2023

How to Cite

Ünal, O. (2023). On the Proto-Turkic */d₂/ and Mongolic *uda- ‘to be late’. Orientalia Suecana, 72, 22–28. Retrieved from https://journals.uu.se/orientaliasuecana/article/view/216

Issue

Vol. 72 (2023)

Section

Research articles

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Open Access. Published by the Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.