Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/kümüĺ

Etymology
Likely an ancient Wanderwort believed to have spread from an unknown source to Turkic, Sino-Tibetan and Austroasiatic languages.

According to several sources, ultimately of Chinese origin, most likely, possibly from an unattested Chinese nominal compound *金鐐 (kˠiɪmleu). However, this hypothetic compound would yield Proto-Turkic *kemle or *kümlü rather than *kümül, which prompts Antonov and Jacques (2011) to reject this hypothesis and instead connect the word to 🇨🇬, modern 🇨🇬. They also connect it to a large number of cognates in Sino-Tibetan languages, such as 🇨🇬. The direction of the borrowing is unclear, as "the etymon for ‘silver’ is not derivable in a straightforward manner from any known verbal or nominal root in either Turkic, Sino-Tibetan or Austroasiatic".

An internal Turkic etymology featuring a nominal derivation from with a subsequent shift of the intevocalic /n/ to /m/ has been proposed too ; compare the semantic extension in Proto-Indo-European, derived from , although Antonov and Jacques find such a derivation improbable on semantic grounds.

Noun

 * 1) silver (metal)

Descendants

 * Oghur:
 * Common Turkic:
 * Common Turkic:


 * Oghuz:
 * West Oghuz:
 * East Oghuz:
 * Karluk:
 * Kipchak:
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 * West Kipchak:
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 * Caspian:
 * Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
 * Siberian:
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 * Old Turkic:
 * Yenisei Turkic:
 * West Kipchak:
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 * Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
 * Siberian:
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 * Old Turkic:
 * Yenisei Turkic:
 * Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
 * Siberian:
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 * Old Turkic:
 * Yenisei Turkic:
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 * Old Turkic:
 * Yenisei Turkic:
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