Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/sub

*sub

1. water

Clauson reconstructs a long vowel to account for written vowel signs in Old Turkic and Karakhanid, however this is not confirmed by Oghuz data.

EDAL reconstructs *sɨb with later labialization to explain Chuvash palatalization.

• Common Turkic:
  • Old Turkic: 𐰽𐰆𐰉‎ (sub)
  • Oghuz:
    • Western Zone:
      • Ottoman Turkish: صو‎ (su) (from an earlier *suv)
        • Turkish: su
      • Azerbaijani: su/су
      • Gagauz: su
    • Eastern Zone:
      • Turkmen: suw
  • Kipchak:
    • North Kipchak:
      • Tatar: су (su)/su
      • Bashkir: һыу (hïw)
    • Kipchak-Cuman:
      • Urum: su/су
      • Crimean Tatar: сув/suv
      • Karaim: сув
      • Kumyk: сув
    • Kipchak-Nogai:
      • Kazakh: су (sw)
      • Karakalpak: суў (suw)/suw
      • Nogai: сув (suv)
    • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
      • Kyrgyz: суу (suu)
      • Southern Altai: суу (suu)
  • Karluk:
    • Western Zone:
      • Uzbek: сув/suv
    • Eastern Zone:
      • Uyghur: سۇ‎ (su)
  • Siberian:
    • North:
      • Dolgan: [script needed] (ū)
      • Yakut: уу (uu)
    • Sayan:
      • Soyot: суғ (suғ)
      • Tofa: суғ
      • Tuvan: суг (sug)
    • Yenisei:
      • Chulym: [script needed] (suu), [script needed] (suuɣ), [script needed] (suɣ)
      • Khakas: суғ (suğ)
      • Shor: суғ
      • Western Yugur: su
• Bulgharic:
  • Khazar:
    • → Ancient Greek: Χαράσιου (Kharásiou, “name of a river”)
  • Volga Bulgarian: شيونَ (šiw(ne), dative)
    • Chuvash: шыв (šyv)

• Clauson, Gerard (1972), “su:v”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 783
• Levitskaja, L. S.; Dybo, A. V.; Rassadin, V. I. (2000) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages]‎ (in Russian), volume 6, Moscow: Indrik, page 348
• Tenišev E. R., editor (2001) Sravnitelʹno-istoričeskaja grammatika tjurkskix jazykov: Leksika [Comparative Historical Grammar of Turkic Languages: Lexis] (in Russian), volume 4, Moscow: Nauka, page 87
• Doerfer, Gerhard (1967) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 20) (in German), volume 3, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 281-282