𐽰𐽳𐽶𐾁

Old Uyghur

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ȫl (“wet”). Cognate with Ottoman Turkish اول (öl, “damp”), Yakut үөл (üöl).

Adjective

𐽰𐽳𐽶𐾁 (öl)

1. wet, damp, moist
   • c. 11th century, Story of Prince Kalyāṇaṃkara and Papamkara, section I:

     𐽵𐾄𐽳𐽾𐽳𐽵 𐽶𐽶𐽾𐽶𐽷 𐽻𐽳𐽱𐽰𐽶𐽳 𐾆 𐽰𐽳𐽶𐾁 𐽶𐽶𐽾𐽶𐽷 𐾀𐽰𐽾𐽶𐽶𐽳 𐾆 𐽵𐽳𐽿𐾅 𐽵𐾄𐽳𐽴𐽵𐽳𐽺 𐽻𐽳𐽲𐽰𐽾 𐽶𐽳𐾁𐽶𐽶𐽳𐽾 𐾆 𐽻𐽰𐽺𐽻𐽶𐽴 𐾀𐽳𐽶𐽹𐽰𐽺 𐽰𐽳𐽶𐽴𐾁𐽳𐽷 𐽰𐽳𐽶𐾁𐽳𐽾𐽳𐽾 𐾇

     Qurug yérig suvayu, öl yérig tarïyu, quš quzun suqar yulïyur, sansïz tümen özlüg ölürür.

     While watering the dry land and sowing the wet soil, the birds and the ravens peck and pull it out, (thus) they kill countless tens of thousands of living things.

2. Saṃsvedaja, fourth birth from moist in Mahāyāna Buddhism

Derived terms

• 𐽰𐽳𐽶𐾁 𐽻𐽶 (öl šï, “dampness”)
• 𐽰𐽳𐽶𐾁 𐽶𐽶𐽾 (öl yér, “humid soil, mud”)

References

• Caferoğlu, Ahmet (1968) “öl”, in Eski Uygur Türkçesi Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 260) (in Turkish), Istanbul: Edebiyat Fakültesi Basımevi, page 150
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ö:l”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 124
• Hamilton, James (2020) Korkut, Ece, Birkan, İsmet, transl., Budacı İyi Kalpli ve Kötü Kalpli Prens Masalının Uygurcası - Prens Kalyāṇaṃkara ve Pāpaṃkara Hikâyesi (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları, →ISBN
• Wilkens, Jens (2021) “öl”, in Handworterbuch des Altuigurischen, Göttingen: Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, page 530