Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/āŋ

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

Noun

*āŋ

1. intelligence

Derived terms

• *āŋ-la- (“to understand; to hear; to discern”)
• *āŋ-gar- (“to understand”)
• *āŋ-sïz (“mindless, foolish; without understanding, without intelligence”)
  • *āŋ-sïz-ïn (“without understanding, without intelligence (inst.)”)

Descendants

• Oghur:
  • Chuvash: ӑн (ăn)
• Common Turkic:
  • Oghuz:
    • Turkmen: āň
  • Karluk:
    • Chagatai: [script needed] (aŋ)
      • Uzbek: ong
  • Kipchak:
    • North Kipchak:
      • Bashkir: аң (añ)
    • South Kipchak:
      • Caspian:
        • Kazakh: аң (añ)
      • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
        • Kyrgyz: аң (aŋ)

• ⇒ Proto-Turkic: *āŋgar-
  • Oghur:
    • Chuvash: ӑнкар (ănk̬ar)
  • Common Turkic:
    • Kipchak:
      • North Kipchak:
        • Bashkir: аңғарыу (añğarıw)
        • Tatar: [script needed] (añğarau)
• ⇒ Common Turkic: *āŋsïz

• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish: اكسز, اكسوز
    • Azerbaijani: ansız, ansızın
    • Ottoman Turkish: آكسوز (añsuz), اكسز (añsız)
      • Turkish: ansız, ansızın
  • Turkmen: āňsyz
• Karluk:
  • Chagatai: [script needed] (aŋsız)
    • Uzbek: ongsiz
• Kipchak:
  • South Kipchak:
    • Caspian:
      • Kazakh: аңсыз (añsyz), аңсызда (añsyzda)

References

• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ēŋV”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 164, 190