𐰞𐰯
Old Turkic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Turkic *alp (“difficult, hard, brave; warrior”). Cognate with Chuvash улӑп (ulăp), Turkish alp (“hero”), Uzbek alp, Kazakh алып (alyp, “giant”), Tatar алып (alıp, “giant”), Yakut алып (alıp, “craftiness, deception, magic”).
Noun
[edit]𐰞𐰯 (alp)
Adjective
[edit]𐰞𐰯 (alp)
- difficult, hard, tough
- 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 40
- 𐰦𐰍:𐰞𐰯:𐰼𐰢𐰃𐰾
- antaɣ:alp:ermiš
- That tough was he.
- 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 40
- brave
- stout
Related terms
[edit]- 𐰞𐰯𐰍𐰆 (alpaɣu)
References
[edit]- Tekin, Talât (1968) “alp”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 301
- Tekin, Talât (1993) “(a)lp”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 47
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “alp”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 127
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ălpa”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill