𐰦

𐰦 U+10C26, 𐰦 OLD TURKIC LETTER ORKHON ENT ← 𐰥 [U+10C25] Old Turkic 𐰧 → [U+10C27]

See also: 𐰧

Old Turkic

Etymology 1

Letter

𐰦 (nt)

1. A letter of the Old Turkic runic script, representing /nt/

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ānt (“oath”). Cognate with Khalaj ând, Turkish ant (oath), Azerbaijani and, Turkmen ant, Uzbek ont, Bashkir ант (ant), Western Yugur at.

Noun

𐰦 (ant)

1. oath
   • 8-10th century CE, Begre (e-11), B5

     𐰦𐰞𐰍:𐰑𐰽𐰢:𐰀:𐰦𐰽𐰃𐰔𐰑:𐰀:𐰓𐰏𐰇:𐱁𐰢:𐰀:𐰑𐰺𐰞𐰑𐰢:𐰀

     antlïɣ:adašïm:a:antsïzïm:a:edgü:ešim:a:adrïldïm:a

     O my sworn and unsworn comrades, o my good companion! I departed!

2. a drink which is mixture of blood and koumiss that been used for taking an oath.

References

• Károly, László, Rentzsch, Julian, editors (2017), A Database of Turkic Runiform Insciptions‎^[1], Uppsala: Department of Linguistics and Philology
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “and/ant”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 176
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Ānt”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[2], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill