𐱅𐰃𐰠𐰛𐰇

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tilkü (“fox”). Cognate with Chuvash тилӗ (tilĕ), Khalaj tilkü, Turkish tilki, Uzbek tulki, Bashkir төлкө (tölkö), Tuvan дилги (dilgi).

Noun

𐱅𐰃𐰠𐰛𐰇 (tilkü)

1. fox
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 46

     𐰉𐰽𐰃𐰣𐰆:𐰘𐰃𐰢𐰃𐰾:𐰇𐰔𐰃𐰤:𐱅𐰃𐰠𐰛𐰇:𐰘𐰃𐰢𐰃𐰾:𐱅𐰃𐰼

     basïnu:yémiš:özin:tilkü:yémiš:tér

     It kept on eating while sinking down, (but) itself was eaten by a fox, it says.

References

• Tekin, Talât (1993) “tilkü”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 64
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “tilkü:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 498
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*tülki / tilkü”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill