Turkic Search
Identify Turkic stems and find cross-language cognates across all 10 major varieties, ranked by confidence and flagged for shared loans.
Type a word in any of the 10 languages (Latin or Cyrillic). The tool extracts the stem, reconstructs Proto-Turkic, and finds cognates.
Featured Proto-Turkic stems
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curated stem sets around a common topicCardinal numerals 1-10 plus 100 and 1000. Rich showcase of the *s/*z and *c-hacek to Kipchak-s shift.
Body-part stems — some of the most stable inherited vocabulary across the family.
Family terms — very conservative across the family, with a few branch-specific innovations.
Basic color terms.
Celestial bodies and atmospheric phenomena.
Terrain and natural features — the steppe worldview in miniature.
Steppe fauna and domestic animals central to Turkic pastoralism.
Common motion and posture verb stems (given in bare-stem form).
Language, cognition, and communication.
Divisions of time from dawn to year.
Pedagogically classic stems chosen because their reflexes across branches illustrate the flagship Turkic sound laws in one place.
Words that look like cognates across the family but are shared or parallel borrowings — from Arabic (religion, law, learning), Persian (everyday, literary), or Russian (modern/technical, mostly in Kazakh). Included to demonstrate the distinction between inherited Turkic cognates and shared loans.