𐰴𐰆𐰽

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Common Turkic *kuĺ (“bird”). Compare Khalaj quş, Turkish kuş (“bird”), Uzbek kush, Bashkir ҡош (qoş), Yakut кус (kus).

Noun

𐰴𐰆𐰽 (quš)

1. bird
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 56

     𐰖𐰍𐰴:𐰃𐰍𐰲:𐰖𐰀𐰖𐰞𐰍𐰢:𐰴𐰆𐰽𐰞𐰍:𐰃𐰍𐰲:𐰴𐰃𐰽𐰞𐰍𐰢:𐰦𐰀:𐱃𐰆𐰺𐰆𐰆𐰯𐰣:𐰢𐰭𐰃𐰠𐰘𐰇𐰼:𐰢𐰤:𐱅𐰃𐰼

     yaɣaq:ïɣač:yaylaɣïm:qušluɣ:ïɣač:qïšlaɣïm:anta:turupan:meŋileyür:men:tér

     My summer quarters is (beneath) the nut-trees (and) my winter quarters is (beneath) the trees where birds crowd.

Derived terms

• 𐰴𐰆𐰽𐰞𐰀 (qušla-, “to hunt birds”)

References

• Tekin, Talât (1993) “kuş”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 57
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kuş”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 670
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kuĺ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill