𐱃𐰢
Old Turkic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tām (“wall”). Cognate with Turkish dam (“roof”), Uzbek tom (“roof”), Kazakh там (tam, “grave”).
Noun
[edit]𐱃𐰢 (tam)
- wall
- 8th century CE, Kültegin Inscription, SE:
- 𐰘𐰃𐰏𐰼𐰢𐰃:𐰚𐰇𐰤:𐰆𐰞𐰺𐰯:𐰉𐰆:𐱃𐱁𐰴𐰀:𐰉𐰆:𐱃𐰢𐰴𐰀:𐰴𐰆𐰯:𐰖𐰆𐰞𐰍𐱅𐰃𐰏𐰤:𐰋𐰃𐱅𐰃𐰓𐰢
- yégirmi:kün:olurup:bu:tašqa:bu:tamqa:qop:yoluɣtégin:bitidim
- Having sat down twenty days, I, Prince Yollug, inscribed on this stone and on this wall.
References
[edit]- Tekin, Talât (1968) “tām”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 374
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ta:m”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 502
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Tām”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill