𐰚𐰇𐰔𐰭𐰇
Old Turkic edit
Etymology edit
Derived from Proto-Turkic *köŕ (“eye”), equivalent to 𐰚𐰇𐰔𐰤 (közün-, “to be seen, to be visible”) + 𐰏𐰇 (-gü). Cognate with Azerbaijani güzgü (“mirror”), Uzbek koʻzgu, Bashkir көҙгө (köźgö, “mirror”).
Noun edit
𐰚𐰇𐰔𐰭𐰇 (közŋü)
- mirror
- 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 22
- 𐰆𐰔𐰆𐰣𐱃𐰆𐰣𐰞𐰆𐰍:𐰚𐰇𐰔𐰭𐰇𐰾𐰃𐰤:𐰚𐰇𐰠𐰚𐰀:𐰃𐰲𐰍𐰣𐰢𐰃𐰾
- uzuntonluɣ:közŋüsin:kölke:ïčɣïnmïš
- A woman dropped her mirror into a lake.
- 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 22
References edit
- Tekin, Talât (1993) “közŋü”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 58
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “közŋü:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 761
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ürüŋ (*örüŋ)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill