𐰸𐰆𐱃

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kut. Cognate with Chuvash хӑт (hăt), Old Uyghur 𐽷𐽳𐾀 (kut), Karakhanid قُتْ (qut), Turkish kut, Uzbek қут (qut), Bashkir ҡот (qot), Kazakh құт (qūt), Kyrgyz кут (kut), Shor қут (qut), Khakas хут (xut), Tuvan кут (kut), Dolgan кут (kut), Yakut кут (kut). Compare also Mongolian хутаг (xutag) and Manchu ᡥᡠᡨᡠᡵᡳ (huturi), Turkic borrowings.

Noun

𐰸𐰆𐱃 (qut)

1. good fortune
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 36

     𐰆𐰲𐰺𐰆𐰍𐰞𐰆𐰍:𐰴𐰆𐱃𐰆𐰭:𐰖𐰆𐰸:𐱅𐰃𐰼

     učuruɣluɣ:qutuŋ:yoq:tér

     (In short), you don't have a good fortune to be celebrated with flying flags, it says.

2. happiness, joy
3. (shamanism) the favour of heaven
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 47

     𐰴𐰆𐱃:𐰴𐰆𐰞𐰢𐰃𐰾

     qut:qolmïš

     He asked for a divine favor.

Alternative forms

• 𐰴𐰆𐱃 (qut)

Derived terms

• 𐰴𐰆𐱃𐰞𐰆𐰍 (qutluɣ)

References

• Tekin, Talât (1968) “qut”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 348
• Tekin, Talât (1993) “kut”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 57
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kut”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 594
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kut”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill