𐱅𐰇𐰯𐰇

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tepe. Cognate with Chuvash тӳпе (tüp̬e), Turkish tepe, Uzbek tepa, Bashkir түбә (tübə), Yakut төбө (töbö).

Noun

𐱅𐰇𐰯𐰇 (töpü)

1. (geography) hill, peak
   • 8th century CE, Kültegin Inscription, Omen E11:

     𐰴𐰭𐰢:𐰃𐰠𐱅𐰼𐰾:𐰴𐰍𐰣𐰍:𐰇𐰏𐰢:𐰃𐰠𐰋𐰃𐰠𐰏𐰀:𐰴𐱃𐰆𐰣𐰍:𐱅𐰭𐰼𐰃:𐱅𐰇𐰯𐰾𐰃𐰦𐰀:𐱃𐰆𐱃𐰯:𐰘𐰇𐰏𐰼𐰇:𐰚𐰇𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰢𐰾

     qaŋïm:élteriš:qaɣanïɣ:ögüm:élbilge:qatunuɣ:teŋri:töpüsinte:tutup:yügerü:kötürmiš

     ...(they) held my father, Ilterish Khagan, and my mother, El Bilga Khatun, ontop of heaven's hill and raised them upwards.

Derived terms

• ⇒? Old Turkic: 𐱅𐰇𐰯𐰇𐱅 (Töpüt, “Tibet”)

Descendants

• Old Uyghur: twybw (töpü)

References

• Tekin, Talât (1968) “töpü”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 385
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 436
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*tepö/ *tepü”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill