𐰋𐰤
Old Turkic edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bẹ (“I”). Cognate with Chuvash эпӗ (ep̬ĕ, “I”), Khalaj mən (“I”), Turkish ben (“I”), Uzbek men (“I”), Bashkir мин (min, “I”), Yakut мин (min, “I”).
Pronoun edit
𐰋𐰤 (ben)
- first person singular pronoun
- 8th century CE, Tonyukuk Inscription, IW7
- 𐰋𐰠𐰏𐰾𐰃:𐰲𐰉𐰾𐰃:𐰋𐰤:𐰜:𐰼𐱅𐰢
- bilgesi:čabïšï:ben:ök:ertim
- I, myself, was his advisor and commander.
- 8th century CE, Tonyukuk Inscription, IW7
Suffix edit
𐰋𐰤 (ben)
- Alternative spelling of 𐰢𐰤 (men)
Alternative forms edit
- 𐰢𐰤 (men) (nasalized)
- 𐰌𐰥 (ben) (Yenisei Kyrgyz)
Declension edit
Declension of 𐰋𐰤
See also edit
Old Turkic personal pronouns
References edit
- Tekin, Talât (1968) “bän”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 312
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ben”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 346
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bẹ-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill