𐱃𐰃𐰭𐰞𐰀

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tïŋla- (“to listen”). Cognate to Chuvash тӑнла (tănla), Karakhanid تِنْكْلاماقْ (tïŋlāmāq, “to listen”), Old Uyghur tynklʾmʾq (tïŋlamaq, “to listen”), Turkish dinlemek (“to listen”), Turkmen diňlemek (“to listen”), Uzbek tinglamoq, Kazakh тыңдау (tyñdau, “to listen”), Kyrgyz тыңдоо (tıŋdoo, “to listen”), Tuvan дыңнаалаар (dıñnaalaar). Compare also Mongolian чагнах (čagnax).

Verb

𐱃𐰃𐰭𐰞𐰀 (tïŋla-)

1. (transitive) to listen

   Synonym: 𐰾𐰃𐰓 (ešid-)

   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 58

     𐰇𐰏𐰇𐰢:𐰇𐱅𐰃𐰤:𐰞𐰖𐰃𐰣:𐰴𐰭𐰢:𐰽𐰉𐰃𐰣:𐱃𐰃𐰭𐰞𐰖𐰃𐰣:𐱅𐰃𐰯:𐰚𐰠𐰢𐰃𐰾:𐱅𐰃𐰼

     ögüm:ötin:alayïn:qaŋïm:sabïn:tïŋlayïn:tép:kelmiš:tér

     He came back saying 'I will take my mother's advice (and) listen to my father's words', it says.

References

• Tekin, Talât (1993) “tıŋl(a)-”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 64
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “tıŋla:-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 522
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*dɨŋla- / *diŋle-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill