𐱅𐰇𐰚

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tök- (“to pour”). Cognate with Chuvash тӑкма (tăkma), Turkish dökmek, Uzbek toʻkmoq, Bashkir түгеү (tügew), Yakut тох (toq).

Verb

𐱅𐰇𐰚 (tök-)

1. (transitive) to pour
   • 8th century CE, Kul-Chur Inscription, E4-5

     𐱃𐰆𐰚𐰔𐰍𐰔𐰚𐰀:𐰘𐰃𐱅𐰃:𐰾𐰆𐰭𐰾:𐰾𐰆𐰭𐰾𐰓𐰜𐰓𐰀:...𐰀:𐱅𐰇𐰚𐰓𐰃

     toquzoɣuzqa:yéti:süŋüš:süŋüšdükde:(ögüzk)e:tökdi

     When he fought seven times against the Nine Oghuzes, he poured them (on the river).

References

• Tekin, Talât (1968) “tök-”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 393
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “tök-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 477
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*dök-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill