𐰋𐰇𐰼𐰃

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bȫrü.

cognates

Cognate with Khalaj bö̂ri, Turkish and Crimean Tatar börü, Uzbek bo‘ri, Kazakh бөрі (börı), Uyghur بۆرە (böre), Bashkir бүре (büre), Shor пӧрӱ (pörü), Khakas пӱӱр (püür), Tuvan бөрү (börü), and Yakut and Dolgan бөрө (börö).

Noun

𐰋𐰇𐰼𐰃 (böri)

1. wolf
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 27

     𐰋𐰇𐰼𐰃:𐰍𐰔𐰃:𐰢𐰾𐰃𐰢𐰃𐰾

     böri:aɣzï:emsimiš

     The wolf’s mouth got poisonous.

Further reading

• Tekin, Talât (1968) “böri”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 320
• Tekin, Talât (1993) “böri”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 52
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “böri”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 356