𐰲

𐰲	U+10C32, 𐰲 OLD TURKIC LETTER ORKHON EC

See also: 𐰳

Old Turkic

Derived from Sogdian 𐼗 (c, “sadhe”), ultimately from Classical Syriac ܨ (“sadhe”).

𐰲 (č)

Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ç”, in The Origin of Turkic Runic Alphabet, London, pages 68 and 74
Tekin, Talât (1968) A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 27

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ač- (“to open”). Cognate with Chuvash уҫ (uś), Khalaj haçmaq, Turkish aç- (“to open”), Uzbek ochmoq, Bashkir асыу (asıw), Yakut ас (as).

𐰲 (ač-)

(transitive) to open
- 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 40:
  𐱃𐰞𐰢:𐰆𐰺𐰃:𐰖𐰺𐰣:𐰲𐰀:𐰖𐰽𐰃𐰲𐰃𐰤:𐰖𐰞𐰢:𐰴𐰖𐰍:𐰖𐰺𐰀:𐰆𐰺𐰆𐰆𐰯𐰣:𐰖𐰞𐰭𐰆𐰽𐰆𐰣:𐰖𐰆𐰺𐰃𐰖𐰆𐰺:𐱅𐰃𐰼
  talïm:urï:yarïn:ača:yasïčïn:yalïm:qayaɣ:yara:urupan:yalŋusun:yorïyur:tér
  A bold youth marches alone, opening (his) shoulder, striking and splitting the bare rock with a broad arrow-head, it says.

Tekin, Talât (1968) “ač-”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 299
Tekin, Talât (1993) “(a)ç-”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 47
Abuseitova, M. Kh, Bukhatuly, B., editors (2008), “𐰀𐰲”, in TÜRIK BITIG, Language Committee of Ministry of Culture and Information of Republic of Kazakhstan
Clauson, Gerard (1972) “aç”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 18
Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ač-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill