𐰴𐰆𐰽
Old Turkic edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Common Turkic *kuĺ (“bird”). Compare Khalaj quş, Turkish kuş (“bird”), Uzbek kush, Bashkir ҡош (qoş), Yakut кус (kus).
Noun edit
𐰴𐰆𐰽 (quš)
- bird
- 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 56
- 𐰖𐰍𐰴:𐰃𐰍𐰲:𐰖𐰀𐰖𐰞𐰍𐰢:𐰴𐰆𐰽𐰞𐰍:𐰃𐰍𐰲:𐰴𐰃𐰽𐰞𐰍𐰢:𐰦𐰀:𐱃𐰆𐰺𐰆𐰆𐰯𐰣:𐰢𐰭𐰃𐰠𐰘𐰇𐰼:𐰢𐰤:𐱅𐰃𐰼
- yaɣaq:ïɣač:yaylaɣïm:qušluɣ:ïɣač:qïšlaɣïm:anta:turupan:meŋileyür:men:tér
- My summer quarters is (beneath) the nut-trees (and) my winter quarters is (beneath) the trees where birds crowd.
- 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 56
Derived terms edit
- 𐰴𐰆𐰽𐰞𐰀 (qušla-, “to hunt birds”)
References edit
- Tekin, Talât (1993) “kuş”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 57
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kuş”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 670
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kuĺ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill