Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/burun

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

Probably a deverbal, if so, from *bur- (“to smell”). For possible cognates, see Turkish burcu (“aroma, scent”), Turkish buram buram (“in whirls, billowing (of smell, smoke)”), Karakhanid [script needed] (burïɣ, “something that smells”), Kyrgyz [script needed] (bura-, “to reek strongly”), Uyghur پۇراق (puraq, “smell”), Khakas [script needed] (puru-, “to emit a stench, to burn (of food)”) et cetera (Dybo, 2013).

Noun

*burun

1. nose

   Synonyms: *tumšuk, *kaŋïr, *tāna

Descendants

• Arghu:
  • Khalaj: burın
• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Classical Azerbaijani: بورون
      • Azerbaijani: burun
      • Qashqai: [script needed] (borun)
    • Gagauz: burnu
    • Ottoman Turkish: بورون (burun)
      • Turkish: burun
  • East Oghuz:
    • Turkmen: burun
  • Uyghur-Oghuz:
    • Salar: purun
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid:
    • Uyghur: بۇرۇن (burun)
    • Uzbek: burun
• Kipchak:
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: морон (murun)
    • Tatar: борын (borın)
  • West Kipchak:
    • Crimean Tatar: burun
    • Karachay-Balkar: бурун (burun)
    • Kumyk: , бурун (burun)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Caspian:
      • Kazakh: мұрын (murın)
    • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
      • Kyrgyz: мурун (murun)
      • Southern Altai: мурун (murun)
• Siberian:
  • North Siberian:
    • Yakut: мурун (murun)
  • South Siberian:
    • Yenisei:
      • Khakas: пурун (purun)
    • Northern Altai: пурун (purun), бурун (burun)

References

• Dybo, Anna Vladimirovna (2013). Этимологический словарь базисной лексики тюркских языков (in Russian). TOO - Prosper Print. pp. 409-14.
• Clauson, Gerard (1972), “burun”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 366-367