Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/kẹntü

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

Alternative reconstructions

*gẹntü

Pronoun

*kẹntü

self

Adjective

*kẹntü

self, own

Descendants

Medieval
- Karakhanid: كَنْدُو‎ (kendǖ)
- Khorezmian: [script needed] (kendü)
- Kipchak
  - Mamluk: [script needed] (kendü)
  - Cuman: [script needed] (kendim, “myself”) < *kẹntü-m
- Old Turkic
  - Orkhon: 𐰚𐰦𐰇‎ (kentü)
  - Old Uyghur: k՚ntw (kentü)
Oghuz
- Old Anatolian Turkish: [script needed] (kendü)
  - Ottoman Turkish: كندو‎‎ (kendü)
    - Turkish: kendi
Siberian
- Dolgan: гини (gini)
- Yakut: кини (kini) <*kénni < *kéndi

References

Clauson, Gerard (1972), “kentü:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 728
Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*gẹntü (-nd-)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

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