𐱃𐰆𐰭

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *toŋ-. Cognate with Turkish donmak, Uzbek to'ngmoq, Bashkir туңыу (tuñıw), Yakut тоҥ (toñ).

Verb

𐱃𐰆𐰭 (toŋ-)

1. (intransitive) to freeze
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 57

     𐰴𐰣𐰍𐰃:𐰇𐰠𐰢𐰾:𐰚𐰇𐰭𐰀𐰚𐰃:𐱃𐰆𐰭𐰢𐰃𐰾

     qanïɣï:ölmiš:köŋeki:toŋmïš

     Her favorite (lover) has died (and) her pail has frozen.

References

• Tekin, Talât (1993) “toŋ-”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, pages 64-65
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “toŋ-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 515
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*doŋ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill