𐽰𐽳𐽶𐾁
Old Uyghur
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Turkic *ȫl (“wet”). Cognate with Ottoman Turkish اول (öl, “damp”), Yakut үөл (üöl).
Second sense is a calque of Tantric Tibetan དྲོད་གཤེར་ལས་སྐྱེས་པ། (drod gsher las skyes pa). Microbes and tiny bugs were understood to be born from the confluence of heat and dampness, hence the name.
Noun
[edit]𐽰𐽳𐽶𐾁 (öl /ʾwyl/)
- wetness, dampness, humidity, moisture
- 𐽲𐾄𐽳𐽾𐽳𐽲 𐽰𐽳𐽶𐾁 𐽶𐽶𐽾𐽲𐽰
- Kurug öl yérge […]
- [On both] dry [and] wet soil […]
- (religion, Buddhism) One of four modes of birth in Mahāyāna and Tibetan Buddhism
Declension
[edit]| singular | definite plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | 𐽰𐽳𐽶𐾁 (ʾwyl) | 𐽰𐽳𐽶𐾁𐾁𐽰𐽾 (ʾwyllʾr) |
| genitive | 𐽰𐽳𐽶𐾁𐽺𐽳𐽺𐽷 (ʾwylnwnk) | 𐽰𐽳𐽶𐾁𐾁𐽰𐽾𐽺𐽶𐽺𐽷 (ʾwyllʾrnynk) |
| dative | 𐽰𐽳𐽶𐾁𐽷𐽰 (ʾwylkʾ) | 𐽰𐽳𐽶𐾁𐾁𐽰𐽾𐽷𐽰 (ʾwyllʾrkʾ) |
| accusative | 𐽰𐽳𐽶𐾁𐽳𐽲 (ʾwylwq) 𐽰𐽳𐽶𐾁𐽺𐽶 (ʾwylny) |
𐽰𐽳𐽶𐾁𐾁𐽰𐽾𐽶𐽲 (ʾwyllʾryq) 𐽰𐽳𐽶𐾁𐾁𐽰𐽾𐽺𐽶 (ʾwyllʾrny) |
| locative | 𐽰𐽳𐽶𐾁𐾀𐽰 (ʾwyltʾ) | 𐽰𐽳𐽶𐾁𐾁𐽰𐽾𐾀𐽰 (ʾwyllʾrtʾ) |
| ablative | 𐽰𐽳𐽶𐾁𐾀𐽶𐽺 (ʾwyltyn) | 𐽰𐽳𐽶𐾁𐾁𐽰𐽾𐾀𐽶𐽺 (ʾwyllʾrtyn) |
| instrumental | 𐽰𐽳𐽶𐾁𐽳𐽺 (ʾwylwn) | 𐽰𐽳𐽶𐾁𐾁𐽰𐽾𐽶𐽺 (ʾwyllʾryn) |
| equative | 𐽰𐽳𐽶𐾁𐽽𐽰 (ʾwylčʾ) | |
| directive | 𐽰𐽳𐽶𐾁𐽷𐽰𐽾𐽳 (ʾwylkʾrw) | |
| similative | 𐽰𐽳𐽶𐾁𐾁𐽰𐽶𐽳 (ʾwyllʾyw) |
Adjective
[edit]𐽰𐽳𐽶𐾁 (öl /ʾwyl/)
Compound terms
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[edit]References
[edit]- 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