Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/kaŕgan

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

Analysis as *kaŕ- (to dig out) +‎ *-gan is often proposed, however not without some controversy; see literature for details.

Noun

*kaŕgan

  1. cauldron

Declension

Declension of *kaŕgan
singular 3)
nominative *kaŕgan
accusative *kaŕganïg, *kaŕgannï1)
genitive *kaŕgannïŋ
dative *kaŕganka
locative *kaŕganta
ablative *kaŕgantan
allative *kaŕgangaru
instrumental 2) *kaŕganïn
equative 2) *kaŕganča
similative 2) *kaŕganlayu
comitative 2) *kaŕganlïgu
1) Originally used only in pronominal declension.
2) The original instrumental, equative, similative, and comitative cases have fallen into disuse in many modern Turkic languages.
3) Plurality in Proto-Turkic is disputed. See also the notes on the Proto-Turkic/Locative-ablative case and plurality page on Wikibooks.

Descendants

  • Oghur:
    • Chuvash: хуран (huran)
    • ? Hungarian: harang (bell)
  • Common Turkic:
    • Middle Mongol: [Arabic needed] (qazghan) (Ibn Muhanna)
  • Arghu:
  • Proto-Oghuz: *γazan
    • West Oghuz:
      • Old Anatolian Turkish:
        • Azerbaijani: qazan
        • Ottoman Turkish: قزان (qazan), قزغان (kazğan)
          • Turkish: kazan
          • Albanian: kazan
          • Arabic: قَزَان (qazān), قَازَان (qāzān)
          • Armenian: խազան (xazan), ղազան (ġazan), կազան (kazan), ղզղան (ġzġan)
          • Aromanian: cãzáne
          • Bulgarian: каза́н (kazán)
          • Greek: καζάνι (kazáni)
          • Hungarian: kazán
          • Macedonian: казан (kazan)
          • Romanian: cazàn
          • Serbo-Croatian:
            Cyrillic script: ка̀зан
            Latin script: kàzan
          • Northern Kurdish: quşxane
        • Gagauz: kazan
    • East Oghuz:
  • Kipchak:
    • Mamluk-Kipchak:
    • North Kipchak:
      • Bashkir: ҡаҙан (qaźan)
      • Tatar: казан (qazan)
        • Siberian Tatar: казаннау (to prepare in a cauldron)
    • South Kipchak:
    • West Kipchak:
      • Crimean Tatar: qazan
      • Karachay-Balkar: къазан (qazan)
      • Karaim: казан
      • Kumyk: къазан (qazan)
      • Krymchak: казан (stockpot)
  • Karluk:
    • Karakhanid: قَزْغانْ (qazɣān, dug out) (uncertain)
      • Khorezmian Turkic: [script needed] (qazan)
        • Uzbek: qozon
  • Siberian:
    • South Siberian:
      • Khakas: хазан (xazan)
      • Shor: қазан (qazan)
  • Persian: خاژغان (xâžġân)

Further reading

  • Clauson, Gerard (1972), “kazğa:n”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 682
  • Levitskaja, L. S.; Dybo, A. V.; Rassadin, V. I. (2000), Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 6, Moscow: Indrik, page 188
  • Doerfer, Gerhard (1967), Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 20)‎[1] (in German), volume 3, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 1390