Non-productive morphemes in Turkic

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-A (N→V)

  • alsız - weak; alsıra- - to weaken (v.i.)
  • boş - empty; boşo- - to empty (v.i.)
  • at - name; ata- - to call/name (v.t.)
  • san - number; sana- - to count/enumerate (v.t.)
  • jaş - age (n.) / young; jaşa- - to live (v.i.)
  • - food; aşa- - to eat by stuffing food into mouth from hands (one's own or other's)
  • sın - criticism; sına- - to criticise, evaluate (v.t.)
  • qıŋğır - jingling, ringing; qıŋğıra- - to jingle, ring (v.i.)
  • qıyın - difficult; qıyna- - to be difficult (v.i.) ~ to torment (v.t.)
  • til - tongue; tile- - to wish
  • orın - place/location; orna- - to be located

-Ay (N→V)

  • az - little (in quantity); azay- - to lessen (v.i.)
  • çoŋ - big; çoŋoy- - to grow (v.i.)
  • köp - a lot; köböy- - to increase in quantity (v.i.)
  • keŋ - wide; keŋey- - to get wide (v.i.)
  • qıyşıq - crooked; qıyşay- - to get crooked (v.i.)
  • joon - thick (of cylindrical things); joonoy- - to thicken (??)

r/z alternations

  • köz - eye; kör- - see
  • semiz - fat (adj.); semir- - to get fat

∅ (X↔V?)

  • köp - a lot; köp- - to swell, get big (in volume, not mass), rise (of dough)
  • toŋ - frozen ground(?); toŋ- - to freeze (v.i.)
  • qızıq - interesting (adj.); qızıq- - to be interested by (v.i.?)

-Ar (N→V)

  • suu - water; suğar- - to water (v.t.)
  • jaş - age (n.) / young; jaşar- - to get/look younger
  • qısqa - short; qısqar- - to shorten

Other Alternations

??? qız - girl / qızıl - red / qızı- - to blush / qızar- - to blush

Irregular forms

  • Kyrgz/Kazakh balabaldar
  • Sakha kııskıırkıttar

-KArI

keri means something like "backside side" or "reverse" or something...

  • teskeri - backwards ← ters - opposite
  • tışqarı - aside from, outside of ← tış - outside