*𐰚𐰅
*ke
Meaning:
back, rear
Reconstructed as the underlying nominal base of a related word-family, on the evidence of forms such as ken, kedin, kerü, kesrä, keç and possibly keçä. The base itself is unattested.
Examples
Translations
German:
Rückseite, hinterer Bereich
Russian:
задняя часть, задняя сторона
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
arxa, arxa tərəf
Turkish (Türkiye):
arka, arka taraf
Bibliography 2
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Marcel Erdal (2004) A Grammar of Old Turkicpp. 332–333, §3.32 (relevant continuous passage on nominal-origin postpositions)p. 179, note 308pp. 332–333, §3.32 (relevant continuous passage on nominal-origin postpositions)
Still other postpositions come from nominals: üzä ‘over; by (the use of), on the part of’ is apparently related to üstün ‘above’; alternately, it may come from a noun attested only in the Codex Comanicus (and possibly in Chuvash) with an obsolete variant of the dative case suffix (thus T. Tekin) or directive-locative +rA with subsequent zetacism. birlä ‘(together) with’ comes from bir ‘one’ with the adverbial suffix +lA; in later Old Turkic sources, birlä can lose its /r/ and/or be expanded with the instrumental suffix to give bi(r)län. öŋi+n is another postposition expanded with the instrumental. The instrumental case suffix is no doubt to be found also in ken ‘after’, which is related to kedin, kesrä, kerü, keč and kečä. p. 179, note 308Possibly syncopated from *ke+sin+rä, from a stem attested in ke+n, ke+din, ke+č, ke+čä and kerü (< *ke+gärü). -
Gerard Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkishp. 686a, *ké: (g-)p. 686a, *ké: (g-)
*ké: (g-) ‘back, behind’, and the like; not noted in the unsuffixed form but see ké:din, ké:n, ké:rü:.
