Names of Cereals in the Turkic Languages - Wydział Filologiczny UJ

16 sula || Barleyalso ‘bud’, köš/ček ‘young of a camel’, also ‘young of an animal’, and Tksh. güǯük ‘short;without tail’, göč(k)en ‘(one year old) hare’ and so on.As to the derivation, it might be regarded as being problematic, that the word has along vowel in Trkm. (kȫǯe). But a secondary evolution in Trkm. is possible, too – underthe influence of Pers. gouǯe?The reconstruction of *köč- is very interesting but it seems to us that the exampleslisted by Tatarincev point quite clearly to the original meaning of ‘to be small’ ratherthan ‘to reduce (oneself)’. Actually, this seems to fit köǯe even better (barley grains arequite small).sulaforms: sula Tel.: Ryumina-Sırkaşeva/Kuçigaşeva 1995etymology: see süle ‘oats’commentary:This word is one of the examples of the quite common identifying/confusing of ‘barley’and ‘oats’: cf. commentary on julaf (point 2) and arpakan, harva and taγ arpasy ‘oats’.Only the direction is unclear here: this is the only word where ‘barley’ < ‘oats’.ša‘īrforms: ša‘īr Ott.: ‏(شعير)‏ Wiesentahl 1895, ša‘īr Redhouse 1921etymology: as yet not discussedcommentary: < Arab. شَ‏ عِیر ša‘īr ‘barley’.tak-takforms: tak-tak Kzk.: ‘wild barley’ DFKzketymology: as yet not discussedcommentary:This name is completely obscure. Presumably, Kzk. tak ‘1. throne; 2. odd number’ correspondsto Uyg. taγ ‘1. mountain; 2. odd number’, but the semantic relationship isutterly unclear. Also, the word has a strange structure which we cannot explain.Cf. taγ-arpasy ‘oats’.ǯehforms: ǯeh Tksh.dial.: Pisowicz 2000: 239etymology: 2000: Pisowicz: 239: < Kurd. ǯeh ‘barley’commentary: We can see no flaw in the etymology presented by Pisowicz 2000: 239.