𐰆𐰲

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *uč-. Compare Turkish uçmak, Uzbek uchmoq, Kyrgyz учуу (ucuu), Tuvan ужар (ujar).

Verb

𐰆𐰲 (uč-)

1. to fly
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 15

     𐰴𐰆𐰽⁚𐰆𐰍𐰃⁚𐰆𐰲𐰀⁚𐰀𐰔𐱃𐰃

     quš:oɣ(l)ï:uča:aztï

     The young birds lost their way flying

2. to die, to pass away
   • 8th century CE, Kultegin Inscription, N13

     𐰚𐰇𐰠𐱅𐰃𐰏𐰤⁚𐰸𐰆𐰪𐰘𐰃𐰞𐰴𐰀⁚𐰘𐰃𐱅𐰃⁚𐰘𐰏𐰼𐰢𐰚𐰃⁚𐰆𐰲𐰑𐰃

     kültégin:qońyïlqa:yéti:yigirmiké:učdï

     Kültegin passed away on the seventeenth day of the Sheep Year

Derived terms

• 𐰆𐰲𐰺𐰆𐰍 (učruɣ)

References

• Tekin, Talât (1993) “uç-”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 66a
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “uç-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 19b
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*uč-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill