Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/-čak

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

Alternative forms

  • *-ček

Etymology

Erdal suggests a borrowing from Middle Persian [script needed] (-čak, “diminutive suffix”).

Akin to Proto-Mongolic *-čag (“diminutive suffix”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Suffix

*-čak

  1. Diminutive suffix.
    Synonyms: *-čük, *-ak, *-č

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Oghur:
    • Chuvash: -ҫа (-śa)
  • Common Turkic:
  • Oghuz:
    • Old Anatolian Turkish: [script needed] (-čak)
      • Ottoman Turkish: [script needed] (-čak)
        • Turkish: -çak, -çek, -cak, -cek
  • Kipchak:
    • Kipchak-Nogai:
      • Kazakh: -шек (-şek), -шақ (-şaq)

References

  • Erdal, Marcel (1991), Old Turkic Word Formation‎[1], volume I, Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 46
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