Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/burgu

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

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bur- (“to bend”) +‎ *-gu. Compared to Proto-Mongolic *bürijen (“trumpet, trumpet horn”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Noun

*burgu

1. trumpet
2. pipe (of a plant)
3. horn

Declension

Declension of *burgu

	Singular 3)
Nominative	*burgu
Accusative	*burgunï, *burgug 4), *burgunïg 1)
Genitive	*burgunïŋ
Dative	*burguka
Locative	*burguda
Ablative	*burgudan
Allative	*burgugaru
Instrumental 2)	*burgun
Equative 2)	*burguča
Similative 2)	*burgulayu
Comitative 2)	*burgulugu

¹⁾ Possibly in Pre-Proto-Turkic.
²⁾ The original instrumental, equative, similative & comitative cases have fallen into disuse in many modern Turkic languages.
³⁾ Plurality is disputed in Proto-Turkic. See also the notes on the Proto-Turkic/Locative-ablative case and plurality page in Wikibooks.
⁴⁾ Found in the Old Turkic era.

Descendants

• Oghur:
  • Chuvash: пӑрӑх (părăh)
• Common Turkic:

• Oghuz:
  • Proto-Oghuz: *burɣu
    • Old Anatolian Turkish:
      • Azerbaijani: boru
      • Ottoman Turkish: بورو (boru)
        • Turkish: boru
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid:
    • Khorezmian Turkic:
      • Chagatai:
        • Uzbek: moʻri, burgʻu
        • Uyghur: بۇرغا (burgha)
• Kipchak:
  • Kipchak:
    • North Kipchak:
      • Bashkir: борғо (borğo)
    • East Kipchak:
      • Southern Altai: буру (buru, “guilt”)
• Siberian:
  • Old Turkic: [script needed] (burğu)
  • South Siberian:
    • Sayan:
      • Tuvan: мурғу (“pipe made of a plant stem”)
    • Yenisei:
      • Khakas: пырғы (pırğı, “hunting horn”)

References

• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*burgu”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 361