Names of Cereals in the Turkic Languages - Wydział Filologiczny UJ

Rice || pirinč 65a couple of times, as is indicated by the different assimilations of the vowels (u-u, ü-ü,ü-i and the incomprehensible forms with ö 40 and Kklp. u-i) and consonants (g-(n)č,g-(n)ǯ, g-š, k-č, k-š) but the exact routes of its penetration 41 are impossible to reconstruct,not at least within the current state of the subject of historical phonetics ofindividual Tkc. languages.The comparison to MTkc. kuršek proposed by VEWT seems realistic phonetically,but a little odd on the semantic side. To the best of our knowledge, there are no parallelsfor one word having the meanings of ‘rice’ and ‘millet’ at the same time. 42Cf. pirinč.pirinčforms:birinǯ Khal.: Doerfer 1987 || Uzb.: ‘groats’ Lapin 1899, Smolenskij 1912birińč KarT: KRPSbryndz KarH: KRPSbürinč Trkm.: Alijiv/Böörijif 1929bürünč Trkm.: RTrkmS, Dmitrieva 1972? buryž Nog.: RNogS, Dmitrieva 1972čeltik pirinǯi Ott.: برجنی)‏ ‏(چلتك ‘unhusked rice’ Redhouse 1921pirinč Gag.: Dmitrieva 1972 || Ott.: ‏(پرنچ)‏ Wiesentahl 1895 || Tksh.: Dmitrieva 1972pirinǯ Ott.: Redhouse 1921prinč CTat.: Zaatovъ 1906 || KarC: Levi 1996 || Krč.Blk.: RKrčBlkS, Dmitrieva 1972languages:CTat.: prinč || Gag.: pirinč || KarC.: prinč || KarH.: bryndz || KarT.: birińč || Khal.:birinǯ || Krč.Blk.: prinč || Nog.: buryž || Ott.: čeltik pirinǯi, pirinč, pirinǯ || Tksh.: pirinč|| Trkm.: bürinč, bürünč || Uzb.: birinǯetymology:1972: Dmitrieva: Gag. pirinč, Krč.Blk. prinč, Nog. buryž, Trkm. bürünč, Tksh. pirinč< Ir. pirinč ‘rice; латунь’ 431999: Eren: < Pers. birinǯcommentary:Dmitrieva’s 1972 proposition seems very plausible. We can only add, that Pers.birinǯ ~ gurinǯ < Skr. vrīhí or Afgh. vriže (Laufer 1919: 393). Laufer also believes thatreconstructing Av. *verenǯa (Horn 1893: 208) or Ir. *vrinǯi-? *vriži-? (Hübschmann1897: 27) is wrong for historical reasons: according to his sources, rice only gained40 The evolution ö > ü is natural in the Tkc. languages; the opposite is not.41 At least some of the forms were probably borrowed with the mediation of another Tkc. language.42 Tüvi &c. ‘rice’ = tögü ‘millet’ is an exception here. However, in this example the differentiationof the semantics results from the source of this word: *tög- ‘to beat, to hit’, being absolutelyneutral with regard to species.43 The missing “