Non-productive morphemes in Turkic
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-A (N→V)
- boş - empty, free (space, time); boşo- - to empty, become free (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.)
- aş - 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
- qan - blood; qana- - to bleed? (v.t.)
- tüş - dream; tülö- - to have a dream
- uçur - time, instance; uçra- - to meet / to greet
-sIz → -sIrA
- alsız - weak; alsıra- - to weaken (v.i.)
- Uzbek yog‘ - oil; yog‘sira- - to unoil(?)
-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 (??)
- muŋ - grief; muŋay- - to be sad
- qart - old (person); qartay- - to get old (v.i.)
r/z and l/ş alternations
- köz - eye; kör- - see
- semiz - fat (adj.); semir- - to get fat
- jetkiz-/jetkir- - to ~lead somewhere / help reach
- jatqız-/jatqır- - to make lie down
- ötköz-/ötkör- - to carry out / execute
- otqor-/otqoz - to graze (v.t.)
- tüş/tülö- - dream (n/v.?.)
- az - little (in quantity), araŋ - barely (Mo. arai)
-KAr and -KIz causatives
-KAr/-KAz
- ötkör-/ötköz- - to carry out / execute (v.t.)
- atqar- - to carry out / execute (v.t.)
- başqar- - to direct (v.t.)
- qutqar- - to save (v.t.)
- ayıpqar- -
- unutqar- - forget
- uyatqar- - to shame (v.t.)
- bütkör- - to finish (v.t.)
- kömkör- - to lay on front side (v.t.)
- tütkör- - to make be enough (v.t.)
- otqor-/otqoz- - to graze (v.t.)
- (t)omqor / tomur- - to upturn something heavy
-KIr/-KIz
- jetkir-/jetkiz- - to see/walk someone somewhere / help them get there (v.dt.)
- jatqır-/jatqız- - to make lie down (v.t.)
- batqız- - to make something fit [somewhere] (v.[d]t.)
- mingiz- - to make someone mount/ride
-(I)r causative
- siŋ- - to get absorbed; siŋir- - to absorb
- büt- - finish/end (v.i.); bütür- - finish (v.t.)
- bış- - cook (v.i.); bışır- - cook (v.t.)
- tüs- - fall (v.i.); tüşür- - make fall (v.t.)
∅ (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.?)
- kör
- qır
- köç
- sağ - intellect (n.); saq- - think, consider
-Ar (Adj→V)
- suu - water / wet; suğar- - to water (v.t.)
- jaş - age (n.) / young; jaşar- - to get/look younger
- qısqa - short; qısqar- - to shorten / get short (v.i.)
- kök - green~blue; kögör- - to turn green (v.i.)
- aq - white; ağar- - to turn white (v.i.)
- jaŋı - new; jaŋır- - to be restored/revitalised/renewed (v.i.)
- eski - old; eskir- - to wear out (v.i.)
- içke - thin (of long things); içker- - to get thin (v.i.)
- juqa - thin (of flat things); juqar- - to get thin (v.i.)
- özgö - different/foreign; özgör- - to change (v.i.)
Other Alternations
- ??? qız - girl / qızıl - red / qızı- - to blush / qızar- - to blush
- jarıq - bright, jar- - explode
- jalaŋ - naked, jalğız - lone, alone
- balqaş - swamp, balır - swamp
Irregular forms
- Kyrgz/Kazakh bala → baldar
- Sakha kııs → kıırkıttar
Complex Codas
- Kyrgyz qarın ‘stomach’ → qard- (poss. root)
- Kyrgyz murun ‘nose’ → murd- (poss. root)
- Kyrgyz orun ‘place’ → ord- (poss. root)
- Kyrgyz dial. moyun ‘neck’ → moyd- (poss. root)
- OT oğıl → oğl-
- Tatar siŋil → siŋl-
Complex Codas 2
- Tatar dus → dust-
-KArI
keri means something like "backside side" or "reverse" or something, though this seems to be from the directive case -GArU
- teskeri - backwards ← ters - opposite
- tışqarı - aside from, outside of ← tış - outside
- ilgeri
-KI (V→N)
- açıtqı - yeast
- şıpırğı - broom
- uyutqu - coagulator (i.e., for yoghurt)
- ?çalğı - scythe
- sınalğı - TV
- ünalğı - radio
- ?ülgü - pattern
- OTk. içkü - a drink
-GU (N→N?)
- qār (**qıra?) snow ~ qırağu (hoar)frost
-KAK
V→A?
- jabışqaq - ‘sticky’
-KIn
- qaçqın - ‘runaway, fugitive’
- taşqın - ‘flood’
- turğun - ‘resident’
-(I)K
This -(I)K is V→A
- açıq ‘open’
- ısıq ‘hot’
- sınıq ‘broken’
- ?qızıq ‘interesting’
Nominalisers
These are mostly all V→N morphemes
-(I)N
- kelin - ‘bride / daughter in law’
- ?aqırın - slowly, carefully
- ?salqın
- ?jaqın (vs. yağuq)
- ?ışqın
- ?qıyın
- ?dayın (vs. dayar)
- iyin - ‘shoulder’
- tüyün - ‘knot’
- ?tütün - ‘smoke’
- uzun (vs. uzaq)
- ?ustun - ‘(tree )trunk’
-(I)K
- jırtıq - ‘tear (rip)’
- teşik - ‘hole’
- ayrıq - ‘scrap, shred’
- ışqırıq - ‘whistle’
- qaqırıq - ‘loogie’
- sızıq - ‘line, dash’
- sınıq - ‘broken piece’
- qıyqırıq - ‘yelp’
- kekirik - ‘burp’
- ketik - ‘chip(ped part)’
- ?tütük - ‘pipe’
- kürök - ‘shovel’
- tayaq - ‘stick/cane/prop/support’
- jölök - ‘prop/support’
- tilek - ‘wish’
-(I)M
- ağım - ‘flow’
- kesim - ‘slice’
- çeçim - ‘decision’
-AK
- jataq - ‘standing [e.g., question]’
- uzaq (vs. uzun)
-MA
... No, this is too productive
-MAl
These might just be Mongolian words in Kyrgyz?
- saa- - to milk (could be Turkic or Mongolic); saamal - horse milk
- açı- - to ferment (v.i.); açımal - fermeneted w:jarma
- tarmal - curly (of hair)
- tuqtamal - suddenly
- tejemel - child being artificially fed??
- şişi- - to swell/puff up; şişimel - puffed up