𐰉𐰽
Old Turkic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bas- (“to press”). Cognate with Chuvash пус (pus), Khalaj basmaq, Turkish basmak, Bashkir баҫыу (baśıw), Yakut баттаа (battaa). Compare also Hungarian baszik, a Turkic borrowing.
Verb
[edit]𐰉𐰽 (bas-)
- (intransitive) to press, collapse
- 8th century CE, Kültegin Inscription, E22
- 𐰇𐰔𐰀:𐱅𐰭𐰼𐰃:𐰉𐰽𐰢𐰽𐰺:𐰽𐰺𐰀:𐰘𐰃𐰼:𐱅𐰠𐰤𐰢𐰾𐰼:𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜:𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰣:𐰠𐰭𐰤:𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰇𐰭𐰤:𐰚𐰢:𐰺𐱃𐱃𐰃:𐰆𐰑𐰀𐰲𐰃
- üze:teŋri:basmasar:asra:yér:telinmeser:türük:bodun:éliŋin:törüŋün:kém:artatï:udačï
- If the sky above did not collapse and if the earth below did not give away, O Turkic people, who would be able to destroy your state and institutions?
- 8th century CE, Kültegin Inscription, E22
- (transitive) to raid, attack, suppress
- 8th century CE, Kültegin Inscription, E35
- 𐰶𐰃𐰺𐰴𐰔:𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰣𐰍:𐰆𐰑𐰀:𐰉𐰽𐰑𐰢𐰔
- qïrqïz:bodunïγ:uda:basdïmïz
- ...and fell upon the Kyrgyz people while they were asleep.
- 8th century CE, Kültegin Inscription, E35
Derived terms
[edit]- 𐰉𐰽𐰀 (basa, “again”)
- 𐰉𐰽𐰴 (basïq-, “to thrust”)
- 𐰉𐰽𐰣 (basïn-, “to go down; to be overwhelmed”)
- 𐰉𐰽𐱃 (basït-, “to let the enemy make an attack”)
References
[edit]- Tekin, Talât (1968) “bas-”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 309
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “bas-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 370
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bas-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill