𐰚𐰇𐰚

Old Turkic edit

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kȫk (“blue, green”). Cognate with Chuvash кӑвак (kăvak), Khalaj kö̂k, Turkish gök, Uzbek koʻk, Bashkir күк (kük), Yakut күөх (küöq). Compare also Mongolian хөх (xöx), Proto-Tungusic *kuku (“blue”) and also Hungarian kék, a Turkic borrowing.

𐰚𐰇𐰚 (kök)

blue
- 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 64
  𐰚𐰇𐰚:𐰉𐰆𐰖𐰢𐰆𐰞:𐱃𐰆𐰍𐰣:𐰴𐰆𐰽:𐰢𐰤
  kök:boymul:toɣan:quš:men
  I am a gray falcon with a blue neck.

Tekin, Talât (1968) “kök”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 351
Tekin, Talât (1993) “kök”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 58
Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kö:k”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 708
Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*gȫk”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

𐰀𐰴 (āq), 𐰇𐰼𐰭 (ürüŋ)	𐰉𐰆𐰔 (boz)	𐰴𐰺𐰀 (qara)
𐰶𐰃𐰔𐰞 (qïzïl), 𐰞 (al)	𐰘𐰏𐰼𐰤 (yegren), 𐱃𐰆𐰺𐰍 (toruɣ); 𐰖𐰍𐰔 (yaɣïz), 𐰉𐰆𐰔 (boz)	𐰽𐰺𐰍 (sarïɣ)
	𐰖𐱁𐰞 (yašïl)
	𐰚𐰇𐰚 (kök)