𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰣
Old Turkic edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bodun (“people, nation”), possibly equivalent to 𐰉𐰆𐰑 (bod, “stature; tribe”) + 𐰣 (-an, “plural suffix”) + 𐰤 (n²).
Noun edit
𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰣 (bodun)
- people, nation, population, ordinary people
- 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 53
- 𐰉𐰆𐰔:𐰉𐰆𐰞𐰃𐱃:𐰖𐰆𐰺𐰃𐰑𐰃:𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰆𐰣:𐰇𐰔𐰀:𐰖𐰍𐰑𐰃
- boz:bulït:yorïdï:bodun:üze:yaɣdï
- A gray cloud passed; it rained over people.
- 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 53
References edit
- Tekin, Talât (1968) “bodun”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 317
- Tekin, Talât (1993) “bodun”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 52
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “boḏun”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 306
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bodun”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill