Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/bulga-

This Proto-Turkic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Turkic

Verb

*bulga-

1. (transitive) to stir, stir up
2. (transitive) to produce a state of disorder

Derived terms

• *bulgak
• *bulgaĺ
• *bulgama
• *bulgamak
• *bulgagu
  • *bulgagučï
• *bulgap
• *bulgayu
• *bulgagan
• *bulgagma
• *bulgar
• *bulgatačï
• *bulgagalï
• *bulgama-
  • *bulgamadïp
  • *bulgamaŕ
• *bulgan-
  • *bulgańuk
  • *bulganč
  • *bulgantï
  • *bulganmïĺ
  • *bulgantur-
• *bulgaĺ-
• *bulgat-
• *bulgak-
• *bulgal-

Descendants

• Oghur:
  • Chuvash: пӑлхан (pălh̬an, “to become turbid”)
  • →? Hungarian: bolygat (“to bother; to create disorder”), bolyong (“to wander, walk without a destination”)
• Common Turkic: *bulga-

• Arghu:
  • Khalaj: bulğamaq
• Proto-Oghuz: *bulɣa-
  • West Oghuz:
    • Old Anatolian Turkish: [script needed] (bulamaq)
      • Azerbaijani: bulamaq
      • Ottoman Turkish: بولامق (bulamak)
        • Turkish: bulamak
  • East Oghuz:
    • Salar: bulğïla-
    • Turkmen: bulamak
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: بُلْغاماقْ (bulɣāmāq)
    • Khorezmian Turkic: [script needed] (bulğamaq)
      • Chagatai: بولغاماق (bulğamaq)
        • Uzbek: bulgʻamoq
        • Uyghur: بۇلغىماق (bulghimaq)
• Kipchak:
  • Kipchak: بولغاماق (bulğamaq)
    • North Kipchak:
      • Bashkir: болғау (bolğaw)
      • Tatar: болгау (bolgaw)
    • West Kipchak:
      • Crimean Tatar: bulğamaq
      • Karaim: булгъа-, bulgamach
      • Kumyk: булгъамакъ (bulğamaq)
    • South Kipchak:
      • Caspian:
        • Kazakh: бұлғау (būlğau)
        • Nogai: булгав (bulgav)
      • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
        • Kyrgyz: булгоо (bulgoo)
        • Southern Altai: булгаар (bulgaar)
• Siberian:
  • Old Turkic: 𐰉𐰆𐰞𐰍𐰀 (b¹ul¹ǧa /⁠bulɣa-⁠/)
    • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (bulɣa-)
      • Western Yugur: pula-
  • North Siberian:
    • Dolgan: булкуй
    • Yakut: булаа (bulaa)
  • South Siberian:
    • Sayan:
      • Tuvan: былгаар (bılgaar)
    • Yenisei:
      • Khakas: пулғирға (pulğirğa)
      • Northern Altai: булгаар (bulgaar), пулгайарга (pulgayarga)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “bulga:-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 337
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bulga-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill