𐰈𐰛𐰈𐰕

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *öküŕ (“ox”). Cognate with Chuvash вӑкӑр (văk̬ăr), Karakhanid [script needed] (öküz, “ox”), Turkish öküz (“ox”), Uzbek hoʻkiz, Bashkir үгеҙ (ügeź), Yakut оҕус (oğus). Compare also Mongolian үхэр (üxer), a Turkic borrowing.

Noun

𐰈𐰛𐰈𐰕 (öküz)

1. ox
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 25

     𐰚𐰃:𐰇𐰚𐰇𐰔𐰇𐰏:𐰋𐰃𐰼:𐰉𐰆𐰴𐰺𐰽𐰃𐰴𐰀:𐰚𐰇𐰠𐰢𐰾

     eki:öküzüg:bir:buqursïqa:kölmiš

     (A man) harnessed two oxen to one wooden plough.

Related terms

• 𐰃𐰤𐰏𐰛 (ingek)
• 𐰉𐰆𐰕𐰍𐰆 (buzaɣu)
• 𐰉𐰆𐰸𐰀 (buqa)

References

• Tekin, Talât (1993) “öküz”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 61
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “öküz”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 120
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*öküŕ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill