𐽹𐽶𐽾
Old Uyghur
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Middle Chinese 蜜 (miɪt̚, “honey”),[1] precise reading unknown. Ultimately from Tocharian B mit, which is from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu (“honey, mead”)[2][3]
Doublet of Proto-Turkic *bạl.[3]
Noun
[edit]𐽹𐽶𐽾 (mïr or mir)
References
[edit]- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “mır”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 771
- ^ Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 59
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Witzel, Michael (2003) Linguistic Evidence for Cultural Exchange in Prehistoric Western Central Asia (Sino-Platonic Papers; 129)[1], Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, page 13
- Caferoğlu, Ahmet (1968) “mır”, in Eski Uygur Türkçesi Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 260) (in Turkish), Istanbul: Edebiyat Fakültesi Basımevi, page 130
- Wilkens, Jens (2021) “(1) mir”, in Handworterbuch des Altuigurischen, Göttingen: Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, page 476
Categories:
- Old Uyghur terms derived from Tocharian B
- Old Uyghur terms derived from Proto-Tocharian
- Old Uyghur terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Uyghur terms derived from Proto-Northeast Caucasian
- Old Uyghur terms borrowed from Middle Chinese
- Old Uyghur terms derived from Middle Chinese
- Old Uyghur lemmas
- Old Uyghur nouns