𐰴𐰆𐰍𐰆

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kugu (“swan”). Cognate with Karakhanid قُغُو (quɣū, “swan”), Turkish kuğu (“swan”), Turkmen guw (“swan”), Uyghur قۇ (qu), Kyrgyz куу (kuu, “swan”), Tuvan куу (kuu).

Noun

𐰴𐰆𐰍𐰆 (quɣu)

1. swan
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 35

     𐰼:𐰴𐰆𐰍𐰆:𐰴𐰆𐰽𐰴𐰀:𐰽𐰆𐰴𐰆𐰽𐰢𐰾

     er:quɣu:qušqa:soqušmuš

     (Then) the man met a swan.

References

• Tekin, Talât (1993) “kugu”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 57
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kuğu:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 609
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kugu”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill