𐰴𐰢𐰃𐰽

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kamïĺ (“reed”). Cognate with Chuvash хӑмӑл (hămăl), Turkish kamış, Uzbek qamish, Bashkir ҡамыш (qamış), Yakut хамыс (qamıs).

Noun

𐰴𐰢𐰃𐰽 (qamïš)

1. reed
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 38

     𐰴𐰢𐰃𐰽:𐰀𐰺𐰀:𐰴𐰞𐰢𐰃𐰾

     qamïš:ara:qalmïš

     (A slave girl) remained (alone) among the reeds.

References

• Tekin, Talât (1993) “k(a)mış”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 55
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kamış”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 628
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kamɨĺ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill