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𐰋𐰤

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Old Turkic

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bẹ (I). Cognate with Chuvash эпӗ (ep̬ĕ, I), Khalaj mən (I), Turkish ben (I), Uzbek men (I), Bashkir мин (min, I), Yakut мин (min, I).

Pronoun

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𐰋𐰤 (ben)

  1. first person singular pronoun
    • 8th century CE, Tonyukuk Inscription, IW7
      𐰋𐰠𐰏𐰾𐰃:𐰲𐰉𐰾𐰃:𐰋𐰤:𐰜:𐰼𐱅𐰢
      bilgesi:čabïšï:ben:ök:ertim
      I, myself, was his advisor and commander.

Suffix

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𐰋𐰤 (ben)

  1. Alternative spelling of 𐰢𐰤 (men)

Alternative forms

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Declension

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See also

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References

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  • Tekin, Talât (1968) “bän”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 312
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ben”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 346
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bẹ-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill