Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/söl

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

Compared to Proto-Mongolic *silö (“meat broth, soup”), Proto-Tungusic *šole (“soup”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Noun

*söl

1. juice
2. soup, bouillon

Declension

Declension of *söl

	Singular 3)
Nominative	*söl
Accusative	*sölni, *sölüg 4), *sölnig 1)
Genitive	*sölniŋ
Dative	*sölke
Locative	*sölte
Ablative	*sölten
Allative	*sölgerü
Instrumental 2)	*sölün
Equative 2)	*sölče
Similative 2)	*sölleyü
Comitative 2)	*söllügü

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: шыл (šyl)
• Common Turkic: *söl
  • →? Proto-Mongolic: *silö, *sölü
    • Middle Mongol: ᠱᠦᠯᠡᠨ (šülen)
      • ⇒ Persian: شیلان
        • Turkish: şölen (“feast”)
      • Mongolian: шөл (šöl)
        • Persian: شوله (a kind of soup)
        • Azerbaijani: şillə (sticky rice)
        • Turkmen: şüle (sticky rice)
      • Dongxiang: shulie (“broth”)
    • →? Proto-Tungusic: *šole
      • Nanai: чо̄лон (čōlon, “soup”)
      • Manchu: ᠰᡳᠯᡝ (sile, “soup”)

• Oghuz:
  • West Oghuz:
    • Old Anatolian Turkish:
      • Ottoman Turkish:
        • Turkish: söl (“bloody juice of meat, juice in meat”) (dialectal)
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: [script needed] (söl)
• Kipchak:
  • North Kipchak:
    • Tatar: сүл (sül)
    • Bashkir: һүл (hül)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Karakalpak: сөл (söl)
    • Kazakh: сөл (söl)
    • Nogai: соьл (söl)
  • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
    • Kyrgyz: сөл (söl)
    • Southern Altai: сӧл (söl, “blood in meat”)
• Siberian:
  • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (söl)
    • Western Yugur: [script needed] (söl, “ram's blood”)
  • North Siberian:
    • Yakut: өл (öl, “soup, bouillon”)

References

• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*söl”, 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 824