𐰢𐰇𐰭𐰼𐰀

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Common Turkic *böŋre- (“to howl”). Cognate with Turkish böğürmek, Bashkir мөңрәү (möñrəw), Yakut маҥыраа (mañıraa, “to moo”). Compare also Proto-Mongolic *büxüre- (“to howl”), Proto-Tungusic *būni- (“to howl”).

Verb

𐰢𐰇𐰭𐰼𐰀 (möŋre-)

1. (intransitive) to howl, bellow
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 60

     𐰋𐰓𐰃𐰔:𐱅𐰃𐰔:𐰇𐰔𐰀:𐰇𐰤𐰇𐰯𐰤:𐰢𐰇𐰭𐰼𐰀𐰘𐰇𐰼:𐰢𐰤

     bed[ük]:tiz:üze:ünüpen:möŋreyür:men

     Rising on my big (and powerful) knees, I bellow.

References

• Tekin, Talât (1993) “möŋrä-”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 59
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “müŋre-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 770
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*böŋre-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill