TY - JOUR
TI - PTkc. *jā- ∼ *ja- ‘to be near, …’ and the question of Altaic correspondences
AU - Stachowski, Kamil
TI - PTkc. *jā- ∼ *ja- ‘to be near, …’ and the question of Altaic correspondences
AB - 
	The paper discusses a group of eleven words with similar phonetic shapes and somewhat similar semantics: jagu-, jak- ‘to come near’; jan- ‘to turn back’; jaguk, jakȳn ‘close, near’; jāk, jān ‘side’; jāna- ‘to sharpen’; jaŋak ‘cheek’; jaŋy ‘new’; and jaka ‘edge’. All have been suspected to belong to the same family, at the heart of which, most probably, would be the verbal root *jā-. Some of the problems associated with this idea were known previously, whereas some are newly identified here. The paper considers various constraints and proposes a scheme centred around *jā ∼ *ja- ‘to be near, …’, which may or may not be connected to MaTung. daga ‘id.’ and Mo. daga- ‘to follow’.
VL - 2023
IS - Volume 140, Issue 3
PY - 2023
SN - 1897-1059
C1 - 2083-4624
SP - 237
EP - 254
DO - 10.4467/20834624SL.23.012.18273
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-linguistica-uic/article/ptkc-ja-ja-to-be-near-and-the-question-of-altaic-correspondences
KW - Turkic
KW - Proto-Turkic
KW - Proto-Altaic
KW - etymology
KW - reconstruction