Is the Turkic us- ‘to be thirsty’ a loanword from Mongolic? An overview of Mongolic loanwords in Old Turkic

The present study questions whether the Old Turkic verb us- ‘to be thirsty’ is derived from the nominal base *u ‘water’, which is attested as such in Kitan and as *usun in Common Mongolic. Since there is no denominal verbal formative +s-...

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Main Author: Orçun Ünal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Jagiellonian University Press 2025-02-01
Series:Studia Linguistica Universitatis Cracoviensis
Online Access: https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-linguistica-uic/artykul/is-the-turkic-us-to-be-thirsty-a-loanword-from-mongolic-an-overview-of-mongolic-loanwords-in-old-turkic
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