𐰚𐰇𐰚
Old Turkic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kȫk (“blue, green”). Cognate with Old Uyghur 𐽷𐽳𐽶𐽷 (kök), Chuvash кӑвак (kăvak), Khalaj kö̂k, Turkish gök, Uzbek koʻk, Bashkir күк (kük), Yakut күөх (küöq) and also Hungarian kék, a Turkic borrowing.
Adjective
[edit]𐰚𐰇𐰚 (kök)
- blue
- 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 64
- 𐰚𐰇𐰚:𐰉𐰆𐰖𐰢𐰆𐰞:𐱃𐰆𐰍𐰣:𐰴𐰆𐰽:𐰢𐰤
- kök:boymul:toɣan:quš:men
- I am a gray falcon with a blue neck.
- 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 64
Alternative forms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- 𐰚𐰇𐰚:𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜 (Kök Türük, “Göktürk”)
See also
[edit]| 𐰀𐰴 (āq), 𐰇𐰼𐰭 (ürüŋ) | 𐰉𐰆𐰔 (boz) | 𐰴𐰺𐰀 (qara) |
| 𐰶𐰃𐰔𐰞 (qïzïl), 𐰞 (al) | 𐰘𐰏𐰼𐰤 (yegren), 𐱃𐰆𐰺𐰍 (toruɣ); 𐰖𐰍𐰔 (yaɣïz), 𐰉𐰆𐰔 (boz) | 𐰽𐰺𐰍 (sarïɣ) |
| 𐰖𐱁𐰞 (yašïl) | ||
| 𐰚𐰇𐰚 (kök) | ||
References
[edit]- Tekin, Talât (1968) “kök”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 351
- Tekin, Talât (1993) “kök”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 58
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kö:k”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 708
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*gȫk”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill