Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/tǖĺ

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

• *dǖl

Etymology

No doubt connected to Proto-Mongolic *tölge (“prediction, divination”) and Proto-Tungusic *tolki-n (“dream”) in some way; compare Mongolian төлгө (tölgö, “mantic, voodooism”) and Evenki толкин (tolkin, “dream”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Noun

*tǖĺ

1. dream (seen while sleeping)

Derived terms

• *tǖĺ-e- (“to dream”)
• *tǖĺ-ün- (“to think, understand”)

Related terms

• *tǖlek (“supernatural power”)

Descendants

• Oghur
  • ⇒ Chuvash: тӗлӗк (tĕlĕk)
• Common Turkic: *tǖl
  • Oghuz
    • Salar: [script needed] (tel)
  • Old Turkic
    • Old Uyghur: twl (tül)
• Common Turkic: *tǖš

• Arghu
  • Khalaj: tîiş
• Oghuz
  • Old Anatolian Turkish: دوش (düş)
    • Azerbaijani: düş (dialectal)
    • Ottoman Turkish: دوش (düş)
      • Gagauz: düş
      • Turkish: düş
  • Turkmen: düýş
  • Khorezmian Turkic: [script needed] (düš)
• Karluk
  • Karakhanid: تُوشْ (tǖš)
    • Chagatai: [script needed] (tüš)
      • Uzbek: tush
      • Uyghur: چۈش (chüsh)
• Kipchak
  • Kipchak: [script needed] (tüš)
  • Mamluk-Kipchak: [Arabic needed] (tüš)
  • West Kipchak
    • Crimean Tatar: tüş
    • Karachay-Balkar: тюш (tüş)
    • Kumyk: тюш (tüş)
  • North Kipchak
    • Bashkir: төш (töş)
    • Tatar: төш (töş)
  • South Kipchak
    • Caspian
      • Kazakh: түс (tüs)
      • Karakalpak: tu's
      • Nogai: туьс (tüs)
    • Kyrgyz-Kipchak
      • Kyrgyz: түш (tüş)
      • Southern Altai: тӱш (tüš)
• Siberian
  • North Siberian
    • Dolgan: түүл (tüül) (<*dǖl)
    • Yakut: түүл (tüül) (<*dǖl)
  • South Siberian
    • Yenisei Turkic
      • Khakas: тӱс (tüs)
      • Shor: тӱш (tüš)
    • Sayan Turkic
      • Tofa: дүш (düš)
      • Tuvan: дүш (düş)

Further reading

• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*t`ūĺke”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “tü:ş”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 559