Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/am

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

Noun

*am

1. (Common Turkic, anatomy) vulva, female genital organ

   Synonym: *ubut (literally “shameful”)

   Coordinate terms: *sik (“penis, male genital organ”), *tïlak (“clitoris”)

Alternative reconstructions

• *ham ~ yam
• *pāman (by Doerfer, for Proto-Turkic)

Descendants

• Common Turkic:
  • →? Proto-Mongolic: *aman (“mouth”) (see there for further descendants)

• Arghu:
  • Khalaj: hâm
• Oghuz: اَمْ (am) (Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk)
  • Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Azerbaijani: am
    • Ottoman Turkish: آم
      • Turkish: am
  • Turkmen: am
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: اَمْ (am)
    • Uzbek: am
• Kipchak:
  • Mamluk-Kipchak: اَمْ (am)
  • Kipchak-Bulgar:
    • Bashkir: ам (am)
    • Tatar: әм (äm), ам (am)
  • Kipchak-Nogai:
    • Kazakh: ам (am)
  • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
    • Kyrgyz: ам (am)
    • Southern Altai: ам (am)
• Siberian Turkic:
  • North Siberian Turkic:
    • Yakut: абас (abas)
  • South Siberian Turkic:
    • Northern Altai: ам (am)

References

• Mahmud al-Kashgari (1072–1074), Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the Compendium of the Languages of the Turks] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume I, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 38.
• Clauson, Gerard (1972), “am”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 155