𐽼𐽶𐽿

Old Uyghur

Old Uyghur numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: 𐽼𐽶𐽿 (béš)     Ordinal: 𐽼𐽶𐽿𐽶𐽺𐽽 (béšinč)     Adverbial: 𐽼𐽶𐽿 𐽲𐽰𐾀𐽰 (béš kata)     Distributive: 𐽼𐽶𐽿𐽰𐽾 (béšer)     Collective: 𐽼𐽶𐽿𐽰𐽷𐽳 (béšegü)

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bẹ̄ĺ (“five”). Cognate with Chuvash пиллӗк (pillĕk), Old Turkic 𐰋𐰃𐱁 (béš), Turkish beş and Yakut биэс (bies).

Numeral

𐽼𐽶𐽿 (pyš /béš/)

1. five

Derived terms

• 𐽼𐽶𐽿𐽰𐽷𐽳𐽺 (bišagün, “a group of five people, fivesome”)

Descendants

• Western Yugur: bes (pes)
• ⇒ Western Yugur: bisun (“fifty”) (< 𐽼𐽶𐽿 𐽰𐽳𐽺 (pyš ʾwn, “five-tens”))

References

• Caferoğlu, Ahmet (1968) “biş”, in Eski Uygur Türkçesi Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 260) (in Turkish), Istanbul: Edebiyat Fakültesi Basımevi, page 45
• Wilkens, Jens (2021) “(1) beš”, in Handworterbuch des Altuigurischen, Göttingen: Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, pages 162-166