𐱅𐰇𐰤

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tǖn (“night”). Cognate with Turkish dün (“yesterday”), Uzbek tun, Bashkir төн (tön), Uzbek tun, Tuvan дүн (dün).

Noun

𐱅𐰇𐰤 (tün)

1. night

   Synonym: 𐰛𐰃𐰲𐰀 (kéče)

   Antonyms: 𐰚𐰇𐰤𐱅𐰔 (küntüz), 𐰖𐰺𐰣 (yarïn)

   • 8th century CE, Kültegin Inscription, E27

     𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜:𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰣:𐰇𐰲𐰇𐰤:𐱅𐰇𐰤:𐰆𐰑𐰢𐰑𐰢:𐰚𐰇𐰤𐱅𐰔:𐰆𐰞𐰺𐰢𐰑𐰢

     türük:bodun:üčün:tün:udïmadïm:küntüz:olurmadïm

     ...for the sake of the Turkic people, I did not sleep by night and I did not relax by day.

Adverb

𐱅𐰇𐰤 (tün)

1. during the night

   Synonym: 𐰛𐰃𐰲𐰀 (kéče)

   Antonyms: 𐰚𐰇𐰤𐱅𐰔 (küntüz), 𐰖𐰺𐰣 (yarïn)

Derived terms

• 𐱅𐰇𐰤:𐰆𐰺𐱃𐰆 (tün ortu, “midnight”)

References

• Tekin, Talât (1968) “tün”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 387
• Tekin, Talât (1993) “tün”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 66
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “tün”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 513
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*tün”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill