Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/ol-

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 forms

*olu-

Etymology

Compared to Proto-Mongolic *ol- (“to find, obtain”), Proto-Tungusic *ō- (“to make, become”) and Korean 오다 (oda, “to come”) (< Middle Korean [script needed] (ó-)). Compare also Proto-Uralic *wole- (cf. Estonian olema).

Verb

*ol-

to be, become
to ripe

Derived terms

Descendants

Medieval
- Karakhanid: اُلْماقْ‎ (olmāq)
- Khorezmian: [script needed] (ol-) (perhaps)
Oghuz
- Ottoman Turkish: اولمق‎ (olmak) (perhaps, if not from *bōl-)
  - Turkish: olmak

References

Clauson, Gerard (1972), “ol-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 125
Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*ol-ur-, *ol(u)-tur-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

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