Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/ko-

*ko-

1. (transitive) to put

• Proto-Turkic: *ko-d- (“to put”) (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Turkic: *ko-n- (“to settle; spend the night”) (see there for further descendants)
  • (?) *kon-uĺč- (“to speak”) (see there for further descendants)
    • (?) *konuĺč-ï (“neighbor, guest”) (see there for further descendants)
  • *kon-uk (“guest”) (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Turkic: *ko-p (“completely, wholly, entirely”) (see there for further descendants) (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• Proto-Common Turkic:
• Arghu:
  • Khalaj: qômaq
• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish: قومق (qomaq, “to put”)
    • ⇒ Gagauz: ko
    • Ottoman Turkish: قومق (komak, “to put”)
      • Turkish: komak (“to put”)

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “komak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “*ko:-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 578