Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/tepe

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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

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Etymology

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A variant *töpü formed at a very early date due to the vowels being rounded as a result of the neighboring labial consonant *p.

Noun

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*tepe

  1. hill, top
  2. (anatomy) top of head

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Oghur: *töpe/tüpe
    • Chuvash: тӳпе (tüp̬e, sky; head)
    • Chuvash: тĕпек (tĕpek, bangs)
  • Common Turkic:

References

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  1. ^ 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)‎[1] (in German), volume II, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 872, pages 450-452
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 436
  • Eren, Hasan (1999) “tepe”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 402
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tepe”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, pages 494, 505
  • Sevortjan, E. V. (1980) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 3, Moscow: Nauka, pages 197-199
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*tepö/ *tepü”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[2], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  • Tenišev E. R., editor (1984–2006), Sravnitelʹno-istoričeskaja grammatika tjurkskix jazykov: [Comparative Historical Grammar of Turkic Languages:] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, page 201