𐰖𐰆𐰺𐱃

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yūrt (“camping-site”). Cognate with Chuvash ҫурт (śurt), Khalaj yûrt, Turkish yurt, Uzbek yurt, Bashkir йорт (yort), Yakut сурт (surt). Compare also Russian ю́рта (júrta), a Turkic borrowing.

Noun

𐰖𐰆𐰺𐱃 (yurt)

1. camp, camping-site
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 13

     𐱅𐰭𐰼𐰃𐰠𐰃𐰏:𐰴𐰆𐰺𐱃𐰍𐰀:𐰖𐰆𐰺𐱃𐰀:𐰴𐰞𐰢𐰃𐰾

     teŋrilig:qurtɣa:yurtda:qalmïš

     A devout old woman remained (alone) in a (deserted) camp.

References

• Tekin, Talât (1968) “yurt”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 408
• Tekin, Talât (1993) “yurt”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 69
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yurt”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 958
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jūrt”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill