Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/bōl-

This Proto-Turkic entry contains reconstructed words 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

Cognate with Proto-Mongolic *bol- (“to become”). Proto-Japonic *bǝ́r- (“to be”) (> *wiru > Japanese 居る (iru, “to be, exist”)) has also been compared; compare descendant Turkish ol- < vol- < bōl- for a similar phonetic development.

Verb

*bōl-

to be
to become

Descendants

Medieval
- Karakhanid: بُلْماقْ‎ (bolmāq)
- Old Turkic
  - Orkhon: 𐰉𐰆𐰞‎ (bol-)
  - Old Uyghur: [script needed] (bol-)
- Khorezmian: [script needed] (bol-), [script needed] (ol-) (if not < *ol-)
- Kipchak: [script needed] (bol-)
Bulghar
- Chuvash: пулма (pulma)
Karluk
- Chagatai: [script needed] (bolmaq)
  - Uyghur: بولماق‎ (bolmaq)
  - Uzbek: boʻlmoq
Kipchak
- Aral:
  - Kazakh: болу (bolw)
- Eastern
  - Kyrgyz: болуу (boluu)
  - Southern Altai: болор (bolor)
- Ural:
  - Bashkir: булыу (bulïw)
  - Tatar: булу (bulu)
Oghuz
- Azerbaijani: olmaq
- Ottoman Turkish: بولمق‎ (bolmak), اولمق‎ (olmak) (if not < *ol-)
  - Turkish: olmak (if not < *ol-)
- Turkmen: bōlmak
Siberian
- Dolgan: буол (buol)
- Khakas: поларға (polarğa)
- Tuvan: болур (bolur)
- Yakut: буол (buol)
?→ Proto-Mongolic: *bol-
- Khalkha: болох (boloh)

References

Clauson, Gerard (1972), “bol-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 331
Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*bōl-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

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