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Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/ben

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

From oblique case of *bẹ. Often connected to Proto-Mongolic *bi (“I”) and Proto-Tungusic *bi (“I”).

Pronoun

*ben

I

Inflection

Declension of Proto-Turkic/ben

nominative	bẹ, ben
accusative	*beni
genitive	*beniŋ
dative	*benke
instrumental	*ben bile
locative	*bente
ablative	*benten

Postposition

*ben

Denotes "to be" for first person singular when at the end of an object; am
Denotes first person singular after various tenses

Related terms

*biŕ (“we”)

Derived terms

*bẹ-niŋ
*bẹ-ni

Descendants

Oghur:
- Chuvash: эпӗ (ep̬ĕ) (actually from *bẹ)
Common Turkic: *ben

Arghu:
- Khalaj: mən
Oghuz:
- Proto-Oghuz: *ben
  - Old Anatolian Turkish: بن‎ (ben), ـون‎ (-ven)
    - Azerbaijani: mən
    - Ottoman Turkish: بن‎ (ben), ـم‎ (-m, -im)
      - Gagauz: bän
      - Turkish: ben, -im
  - Salar: [script needed] (mēn), men
  - Turkmen: men, -in

Karluk:
- Karakhanid: مَنْ‎ (men)
  - Khorezmian Turkic: [script needed] (ben), [script needed] (men)
    - Chagatai: من‎ (men)
      - Uzbek: men
      - Uyghur: مەن‎ (men)
Kipchak:
- Kipchak: من‎ (män)
  - North Kipchak:
    - Bashkir: мин (min)
    - Tatar: мин (min)
  - West Kipchak:
    - Crimean Tatar: men
    - Karachay-Balkar: мен (men)
    - Kumyk: мен (men)
  - South Kipchak:
    - Caspian:
      - Kazakh: мен (men)
      - Karakalpak: мен
      - Nogai: мен (men)
    - Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
      - Kyrgyz: мен (men)
      - Southern Altai: мен (men)
Siberian:
- Old Turkic:
  - Old Turkic: 𐰢𐰤‎‎ (mn²‎ /men/), 𐰋𐰤‎‎ (b²n²‎ /ben/)
  - Old Uyghur: pʾn (ben), mʾn (men)
    - Western Yugur: [script needed] (men)
  - Yenisei Kyrgyz: 𐰌𐰥‎‎ (/ben/)
- North Siberian:
  - Dolgan: мин (min)
  - Yakut: мин (min)
- South Siberian:
  - Sayan Turkic:
    - Tofa: мен (men)
    - Tuvan: мен (men)
  - Yenisei Turkic:
    - Khakas: мин (min)
    - Shor: мен (men)

Further reading

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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