𐰛𐰈𐰤𐰾

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *küneĺ (“sun, sunny place”). Cognate with 𐰚𐰇𐰤 (kün, “sun, day”), Chuvash хӗвел (hĕvel, “sun”), Turkish güneş (“sun, sunlight, sunny place”), Uzbek quyosh, Bashkir ҡояш (qoyaş), Yakut куйаас (kuyaas).

Noun

𐰛𐰈𐰤𐰾 (küneš)

1. sunshine, sunlight
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 57

     𐰚𐰇𐰤𐰾𐰚𐰀:𐰆𐰞𐰆𐰺𐰆𐰺:𐰆𐰞

     küneške:olurur:ol

     It remains in the sunshine.

2. sunny place

Related terms

• 𐰚𐰇𐰤 (kün, “sun, day”)

References

• Tekin, Talât (1993) “kün(ä)ş”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 59
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “küneş”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 734
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*güneĺ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill