𐾀𐽰𐽼𐽾𐽰𐽹𐽰𐽷
Old Uyghur
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tepre- (“to move, shake”).[1] Cognate with Chuvash тапран (tapran), Turkish deprenmek, Kazakh тербеліс (terbelıs, “oscillation”).
Verb
[edit]𐾀𐽰𐽼𐽾𐽰𐽹𐽰𐽷 (tʾprʾmʾk /tepremek, tabramak/)
- (intransitive) to move
- Synonym: 𐽶𐽳𐽾𐽶𐽹𐽰𐽷 (ywrymʾk /yorïmak/)
- c. 11th century, Story of Prince Kalyāṇaṃkara and Papamkara, LXXX.5:
- 𐽷𐽳𐽶𐽽𐽶 𐽰𐽰𐽷𐽺𐽷𐽳𐽸𐽶 𐾀𐽰𐽼𐽾𐽰𐽶𐽳 𐽶𐽳𐽾𐽶𐽶𐽳 𐽰𐽳𐽹𐽰𐽸𐽶 𐾈
- kwycy ʾʾknkwdy tʾprʾyw ywryyw ʾwmʾdy
- /...küči alŋudï, tepreyü yorïyu umadï./
- His strength was waning, he could not move, he could not walk.
- (transitive) to shake, to tremble
- to twitch, to flail (said of sick men)
- (rare) to shine (said of a mirage)
Derived terms
[edit]- 𐾀𐽰𐽼𐽾𐽰𐽷 (tʾprʾk /teprek/, “vibrating, oscillating”)
- 𐾀𐽰𐽼𐽾𐽰𐽷𐽳 (tʾprʾkw /tepregü/, “onset (of a disease)”)
- 𐾀𐽰𐽼𐽾𐽰𐽺𐽹𐽰𐽷 (tʾprʾnmʾk /teprenmek/, “to start”)
- 𐾀𐽰𐽼𐽾𐽰𐽻𐾅𐽹𐽰𐽷 (tʾprʾs̤mʾk /teprešmek/, “to vibrate, to move in unison”)
- 𐾀𐽰𐽼𐽾𐽰𐾀𐽷𐽳𐽶𐾁𐽳𐽷𐽻𐽳𐽴 (tʾprʾtkwylwkswz /tepretgülüksüz/, “immovable, unyielding; one of the names of the Buddha”)
- 𐾀𐽰𐽼𐽾𐽰𐾀𐽹𐽰𐽷 (tʾprʾtmʾk /tepretmek/, “to make move, to send an army”)
References
[edit]- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “tepre:-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 443
- Caferoğlu, Ahmet (1968) “täbrämäk”, in Eski Uygur Türkçesi Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 260) (in Turkish), Istanbul: Edebiyat Fakültesi Basımevi, page 230
- Hamilton, James (2020) “tepre-”, in 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, page 181
- Wilkens, Jens (2021) “täprä-”, in Handworterbuch des Altuigurischen, Göttingen: Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, page 700