ETYMOLOGICAL ATTEMPTS ON YELLOW UYGHUR: O-Ö ITEMS

The subject of this paper is to create an etymological dictionary on Yellow Uyghur. For this purpose, “O-Ö” items were investigated in Yazık jyoltıh uygurov: Slovar' i grammatika published by Sergey Yefimoviç Malov in 1957 and Stroy sarıg-yugurskogo yazıka published by Tenişev in 1976. Items of dictionary parts and sentence examples in the items that were taken from these studies were translated into Turkish and etymologies about the words were listed. Then those words were compared with both historical and modern Turkic languages. A total of 135 words were identified in “O-Ö” items except for proper and place name. The results of this comparison “ O-Ö” items of Yellow Uyghur dictionaries with the other Turkic languages are as follows: 23 common words were identified in Yellow Uygur and North-South Siberian Turkic languages. These basic verbs and nouns are as follows: oğır, oğul, oğur, ok, ol, olur-, on, oŋurka, or, orın, orta, ot I, ot II, ot-, otağ, ottuk, otur, oya, oyna-, ozı-, öl-, örek, örle-. Besides, Yellow Uyghur words were detected in some languages, such as 53 of them in Khakas, 53 of them in Altay, 45 of them in Tuvanian and 33 of them in Yakut. This data containing approximate value confirms that Yellow Uyghur is closely related to South Siberian Turkic languages. It was determined 32 common words which are seen with some sound changes in all modern languages or languages groups in accordance with vocabulary of “O-Ö” item: oca, oglan, ogul, ogur, ogırla-, oin, ok, ol, olag, olur-, on I, on II, oŋ, oŋurka, op, or- , orgak, orın, orta, ot I, ot II, otıs, otun, oy, oy-, oya, oynas, ozak, ozı-, öl-, öxkpe, örek.

Keywords

Yellow Uyghur, etymology, Old Turkic, historical and modern Turkic languages.