𐽹𐽶𐽺𐽷

Old Uyghur

Old Uyghur numbers ^(edit)

←  1	←  100	1,000	10,000  →	1,000,000 (106)  →
Cardinal: 𐽹𐽶𐽺𐽷 (mïŋ)     Ordinal: 𐽹𐽶𐽺𐽷𐽶𐽺𐽽 (mïŋïnč)     Adverbial: 𐽹𐽶𐽺𐽷 𐽲𐽰𐾀𐽰 (mïŋ kata)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bïŋ (“thousand”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰋𐰃𐰭 (biŋ), Chuvash пин (pin), Khalaj ming (“thousand”), Turkish bin, Uzbek ming, Bashkir мең (meñ), Yakut муҥ (muñ).

Numeral

𐽹𐽶𐽺𐽷 (mïŋ)

1. thousand

   Synonyms: 𐽰𐽳𐽺 𐽶𐽳𐽴 (on yüz), 𐽻𐽶𐽺 (sén)

   • c. 11th century, Story of Prince Kalyāṇaṃkara and Papamkara, XIII.4:

     𐽲𐽰𐽴𐽲𐽰𐽺𐽽 𐽺𐽰𐽺𐽷 𐾀𐽰𐽾𐽶𐽵 𐾀𐽰𐽾𐽶𐽹𐽰𐽲𐽸𐽰 𐽰𐽸𐽷𐽳 𐽶𐽳𐽵 𐽷𐽶𐽹 𐽼𐽶𐽾 𐾀𐽰𐽾𐽶𐽻𐽰𐽾 𐽹𐽶𐽺𐽷 𐾀𐽳𐽶𐽹𐽰𐽺 𐽼𐽳𐾁𐽳𐽾 𐾉

     Kazganč neŋ tarïg tarïmakda edgü yok; kém bir tarïsar mïŋ, tümen bolur.

     There is no better way to gain than by cultivating the fields; when you sow one (seed), thousands, [if not] tens of thousands are obtained.

Descendants

• Western Yugur: məŋ

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “bıŋ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 346-347
• 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) “(1) miŋ”, in Handworterbuch des Altuigurischen, Göttingen: Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, page 475