𐰚𐰠𐰤

Old Turkic

FWOTD – 7 October 2019

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kẹlin (“bride, daughter-in-law”). Cognate with Chuvash кин (kin), Azerbaijani gəlin, Turkish gelin, Uzbek kelin, Kazakh келін (kelın), Bashkir килен (kilen, “daughter-in-law”), Tuvan келин (kelin).

Noun

𐰚𐰠𐰤 (kelin)

1. daughter-in-law, bride
   • 8th century CE, Kültegin Inscription, N9

     𐰇𐰏𐰢:𐰴𐱃𐰆𐰣:𐰆𐰞𐰖𐰆:𐰇𐰏𐰠𐰼𐰢:𐰚𐰠𐰼𐰢:𐰚𐰠𐰭𐰇𐰤𐰢:𐰸𐰆𐰨𐰖𐰞𐰺𐰢:𐰉𐰆𐰨𐰀:𐰘𐰢𐰀:𐱅𐰃𐰼𐰏𐰃:𐰚𐰇𐰭:𐰉𐰆𐰡𐰲𐰃:𐰼𐱅𐰃:𐰇𐰠𐰏𐰃:𐰖𐰆𐰺𐱃𐰑𐰀:𐰖𐰆𐰞𐱃𐰀:𐰖𐱃𐰆:𐰴𐰡𐰲𐰃:𐰼𐱅𐰏𐰔

     ögüm:qatun:ulayu:öglerim:ekelerim:keliŋünüm:qončuylarïm:bunča:yeme:tirigi:küŋ:boltačï:erti:ölügi:yurtda:yolta:yatu:qaltačï:ertigiz

     My mother, the khatun, and my (step-)mothers, my elder sisters, my daughters-in-law, my princesses this many people who were going to survive would have become slaves, and those of you who were going to be killed would have been left lying at the camp and on roads.

References

• Tekin, Talât (1968) “keliŋün”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 349
• Abuseitova, M. Kh, Bukhatuly, B., editors (2008), “𐰚𐰠𐰤”, in TÜRIK BITIG: Ethno Cultural Dictionary, Language Committee of Ministry of Culture and Information of Republic of Kazakhstan
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kelin”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 719
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*gẹlin”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill