Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/ört

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

*ört

  1. fire, conflagration

Descendants

  • Oghur:
    • Chuvash: вирт (virt)
  • Proto-Common Turkic:
  • Oghuz:
    • Ottoman Turkish: اورت (ört) (hapax legomenon)
      • Turkish: ört (dialectal)
    • Turkmen: ört (only in idioms)
  • Kipchak:
    • Kipchak-Bulgar:
    • Kipchak-Nogai:
    • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
  • Karluk:
  • Siberian Turkic:
    • Old Uyghur: 𐽰𐽳𐽶𐽾𐾀 (ʾwyrt /⁠ört⁠/)
    • North Siberian Turkic:

Derived terms

  • Proto-Common Turkic: *örtlig (fiery)
    • Kipchak: órtli, órtlik (Codex Cumanicus)
  • Proto-Common Turkic: *örtle- (to set on fire)
  • Kipchak:
    • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
      • Kyrgyz: [script needed] (örttö-)
  • Oghuz:
    • Turkish: örtlemek (dialectal)
    • Gagauz: örtlenmää
  • Proto-Common Turkic: *örte-
  • Karluk
    • Karakhanid: اُرتاماكْ (örtemek)
      • Chagatai: اورتاماك (örtämäk)
        • Uyghur: ئۆرتەمەك (örtemek)
        • Uzbek: oʻrtamoq
  • Oghuz:
    • Turkmen: örtemek
    • Azerbaijani: (dialectal) örtdənmək
    • Ottoman Turkish: اورتمك (örtemek) (hapax legomenon)

Unsorted derivations:

  • Gagauz: örtmek
  • Turkish: (dialectal) örtlek
  • Turkish: (dialectal) örten
  • Chuvash: вирӗк (virĕk, fire)
  • Azerbaijani: (dialectal) örtən (fire)

Further reading

  • Räsänen, Martti (1969) “ört”, in Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 375a
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ört”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 201