𐰋𐰓𐰔

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Common Turkic *bediz (“decoration, ornamentation”). Cognate with Turkish bezemek. Compare also Proto-Mongolic *beder (“mark, stain”), a Turkic borrowing.

Noun

𐰋𐰓𐰔 (bediz)

1. decoration, ornamentation
   • 8th century CE, Kültegin Inscription, NE:

     𐰉𐰺𐰴𐰃𐰤:𐰋𐰓𐰔𐰃𐰤:𐰋𐰃𐱅𐰏:𐱃𐱁𐰃𐰤:𐰋𐰃𐰲𐰃𐰤:𐰘𐰃𐰞𐰴𐰀:𐰘𐰃𐱅𐰨:𐰖:𐰘𐰃𐱅𐰃:𐰆𐱃𐰔𐰴𐰀:𐰴𐰆𐰯:𐰞𐰴𐰑𐰢𐰔

     barqïn:bedizin:bitig:tašïn:béčin:yïlqa:yétinč:ay:yéti:otuzqa:qop:alqdïmïz

     We finished his mausoleum, statues and paintings, and his inscription stone on the twenty-seventh day of the seventh month, on the Year of Monkey.

Derived terms

• 𐰋𐰓𐰔𐰀 (bedze-, “to adorn, decorate”)
• 𐰋𐰓𐰔𐱅 (bedzet-, “to make someone decorate”)
• 𐰋𐰓𐰔𐰲𐰃 (bedizči, “artist, painter”)
• 𐰋𐰓𐰔𐰠𐰀 (bedizle-, “to adorn, decorate”)

References

• Tekin, Talât (1968) “bädiz”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 310
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “beḏiz”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 310