Old Turkic edit

Old Turkic cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : 𐰘𐰇𐰕 (yüz)
    Ordinal : 𐰘𐰇𐰕𐰨 (yüzünč)

Etymology 1 edit

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yǖŕ (hundred). Cognate with Chuvash ҫӗр (śĕr), Khalaj yü̂z, Azerbaijani yüz (hundred), Turkish yüz (hundred), Uzbek yuz, Bashkir йөҙ (yöź), Yakut сүүс (süüs).

Numeral edit

𐰘𐰇𐰕 (yüz)

  1. hundred
    • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 32
      𐰋𐰃𐰼:𐱃𐰉𐰞𐰴𐰆:𐰘𐰇𐰔:𐰉𐰆𐰞𐱃𐰃:𐰘𐰇𐰔:𐱃𐰉𐰞𐰴𐰆:𐰢𐰃𐰭:𐰉𐰆𐰞𐱃𐰃:𐰢𐰃𐰭:𐱃𐰉𐰞𐰴𐰆:𐱅𐰇𐰢𐰤:𐰉𐰆𐰞𐱃𐰃:𐱅𐰃𐰼
      bir:tabïlqu:yüz:boltï:yüz:tabïlqu:miŋ:boltï:miŋ:tabïlqu:tümen:boltï:tér
      One spriaea became a hundred; a hundred spiraeas became a thousand (and) a thousand spiraeas became ten thousand, it says.

References edit

Etymology 2 edit

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yǖŕ (face). Cognate with Chuvash ҫӑвар (śăvar), Khalaj yü̂z, Azerbaijani yüz (face), Turkish yüz (face), Uzbek yuz, Bashkir йөҙ (yöź), Yakut сүүс (süüs).

Noun edit

𐰘𐰇𐰕 (yüz)

  1. (anatomy) face
    • 8th century CE, Kültegin Inscription, E33
      𐰖𐰺𐰴𐰃𐰦𐰀:𐰖𐰞𐰢𐰽𐰃𐰦𐰀:𐰘𐰇𐰔:𐰺𐱃𐰸:𐰸𐰆𐰣:𐰆𐰺𐱃𐰃:𐰘𐰇𐰔𐰭𐰀:𐰉𐱁𐰃𐰭𐰀:𐰋𐰃𐰼:𐱅𐰏𐰼𐰢𐰓𐰃
      yarïqïnta:yalmasïnta:yüz:artuq:oqun:urtï:yüziŋe:bašïŋa:bir:tegürmedi
      They hit (him) with more than a hundred arrows on his armor and caftan; (but he did not let the enemy hit him) even once on his face or head.

References edit

  • Tekin, Talât (1968) “yüz”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 408
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yü:z”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 983
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jǖŕ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[2], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill