Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/ök

• *ok
• *-k

*ök

1. (Common Turkic) emphatic particle.

   ‎*ben (“I”) + ‎*ök → ‎*ben ök (“I, personally...”)

1. Much like *-mi, it adheres to the vowel harmony of the word that comes before it.

   ‎*anča (“equative of third person singular, like that”) + ‎*ök → ‎*anča ok (“exactly like that”)

2. In certain instances, if the word ends with a vowel, it may drop *O- turning it into a suffix *-k

   ‎*anča (“like that”) + ‎*ök → ‎*ančak (“exactly like that”)

3. Particle did not survive as it is in most of the daughter languages, though it lives in a suffix form *-(i)k (“first person plural verbal suffix”) and in fossilized forms such as Turkish ancak (“but, except, however”).^[1]

• (Common Turkic) *-(i)k (“first person plural verbal suffix”)

• Common Turkic:

Clauson, Gerard (1972), “ok”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 76