A New Chuvash–Common Turkic Cognate and its Relation to Tocharian

This study proposes a new cognate relationship between Chuvash vĕre- ‘to boil’ and Common Turkic *özä- ‘to suffer’. Both can be traced back to Proto-Turkic *ör₂ǟ- ‘to burn (intransitive), be hot’, derived from *ör₂V-. The semantic shift from ‘to burn’ to figurative meanings such as ‘to grieve’ or ‘t...

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Main Author: Orçun Ünal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University 2025-05-01
Series:Orientalia Suecana
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Online Access:https://journals.uu.se/orientaliasuecana/article/view/647
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