Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/baltu

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 reconstructions

  • *balto (per Eren)

Etymology

Uncertain.[1] Perhaps from Akkadian [script needed] (pāltu, “two-headed battle axe”), or from Old Persian *paraθu,[2] Nişanyan comments that such derivations are beyond our current scope of knowledge.[3] Eren describes the proposed relation as complicated.[4]

Noun

*baltu

  1. battle axe

Descendants

  • → Proto-Mongolic: *balta[5]
  • → Hungarian: balta (the direct source is disputed)
  • Oghur:
    • Chuvash: пуртӑ (purt̬ă)
  • Proto-Common Turkic:

References

  1. ^ Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “balta”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
  2. ^ Doerfer, Gerhard (1963), Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 16)‎[1] (in German), volume I, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 199
  3. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “balta”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  4. ^ Eren, Hasan (1999), “balta”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language]‎[2] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi
  5. ^ Khabtagaeva, Bayarma (2019), Language Contact in Siberia: Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic Loanwords in Yeniseian (The languages of Asia series; 19)‎[3], Brill, →ISBN, page 120

Further reading

  • Räsänen, Martti (1969), “baltu”, in Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 61
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972), “baltu: (balto:)”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 333
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