𐰋𐰃𐰾

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *biĺč- (“to ripen”). Cognate with Chuvash пиҫ (piś), Khalaj bışmaq, Turkish pişmek, Uzbek pishmoq, Bashkir бешеү (beşew), Yakut бус (bus).

Verb

𐰋𐰃𐰾 (biš-)

1. (intransitive) to ripen
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 53

     𐱃𐰺𐰃𐰍:𐰋𐰃𐰾𐰓𐰃:𐰖𐰽:𐱇:𐰇𐰤𐰓𐰃

     tarïɣ:bišdi:yaš:ot:ündi

     The crops ripened; the fresh grass sprouted.

References

• Tekin, Talât (1993) “biş-”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 52
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “bış-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 376
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*biĺč-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill