Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/em-

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

Compared to Proto-Uralic *ime- (“to suck”).

Verb

*em-

to suck (breast of women or animals)
Synonym: *sim-

Derived terms

*emiŕ- (“to suckle”)

Descendants

Oghur:
- Chuvash: ӗм (ĕm)

Arghu:
- Khalaj: əmmək
Oghuz:
- Old Anatolian Turkish:
  - Azerbaijani: əmmək
  - Ottoman Turkish: اممك‎‎ (emmek)
    - Turkish: emmek
    - Gagauz: emmää
- Salar: em
- Turkmen: emmek
Karluk:
- Karakhanid: اماك‎ (emmēk)
  - Chagatai: [script needed] (émmek)
    - Uyghur: ئەممەك‎‎ (emmek‎)
    - Uzbek: emmoq
Kipchak:
- West Kipchak:
  - Crimean Tatar: emmek
  - Karachay-Balkar: эмерге (emerge)
- North Kipchak:
  - Bashkir: имеү (imew)
  - Tatar: имәргә (imärgä)
- South Kipchak:
  - Caspian:
    - Kazakh: ему (emu)
    - Nogai: [script needed] (em-)
  - Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
    - Kyrgyz: эмүү (emüü)
    - Southern Altai: эмер (emer)
Siberian
- North Siberian:
  - Yakut: эм (em)
- South Siberian:
  - Sayan:
    - Tuvan: эмер (emer)
  - Yenisei:
    - Khakas: эмерге (emerge)
    - Western Yugur: [script needed] (yim-)

References

Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*em-ig, *em-ček”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

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