Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/borsuk

This Proto-Turkic entry contains reconstructed words 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 reconstructions

*borsmuk

Reconstruction

Reflexes of /-m-/ in Siberian languages may be due to the nasal in the suffix.

Noun

*borsuk

badger

Descendants

Oghur:
- Chuvash: пурӑш (purăš)
Common Turkic: *borsuk, *borsmuk

Oghuz:
- Old Anatolian Turkish: [Term?]
  - Azerbaijani: porsuq
  - Ottoman Turkish: پرسق‎ (porsuk), بورصوق‎
    - Turkish: porsuk
      - Armenian: փորսուղ (pʿorsuł)
      - Polish: borsuk
      - Romanian: bursuc
      - Ukrainian: борсу́к (borsúk)
      - Lithuanian: barsukas
- Turkmen: torsuk
Kipchak:
- North Kipchak:
  - Bashkir: бурһыҡ (burhïq)
  - Tatar: бурсык (bursıq), bursık
- West Kipchak:
  - Karachay-Balkar: борсукъ (borsuq)
  - Kumyk: порсукъ (porsuq)
- South Kipchak:
  - Kazakh: борсық (borsıq)
- East Kipchak:
  - Kyrgyz: борсук (borsuq)
  - Southern Altai: борсык (borsïk)
Karluk:
- Karakhanid: بُرْسْمُكْ‎ (borsmuk)
  - Chagatai: بورسوق‎ (borsuq)
    - Uyghur: بورسۇق‎ (borsuq)
    - Uzbek: bo'rsiq
Siberian:
- Old Turkic: ‎‎ (borsmuk)
- South Siberian:
  - Sayan:
    - Tofa: борсуӄ (borsuq)
    - Tuvan: морзук (morzuk)
→ Russian: барсук (barsuk)
→ Hungarian: borz

References

Clauson, Gerard (1972) An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 369
Doerfer, Gerhard (1965) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 19) (in German), volume II, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 284
Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*borsuk, *borsmuk”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

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