𐰚𐰇𐰤𐱅𐰔
Old Turkic
editEtymology
editInherited from Proto-Turkic *küntüŕ (“daytime, morning; noon”), equivalent to 𐰚𐰇𐰤 (kün, “day; sun”) + 𐱅𐰔 (-tüz). Cognate with Chuvash кӑнтӑр (kănt̬ăr), Turkish gündüz (“daytime, morning”), Uzbek kunduz, Bashkir көндөҙ (köndöź), Yakut күнүс (künüs).
Noun
edit𐰚𐰇𐰤𐱅𐰔 (küntüz)
- daytime, morning
- 8th century CE, Kültegin Inscription, E27
- 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜:𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰣:𐰇𐰲𐰇𐰤:𐱅𐰇𐰤:𐰆𐰑𐰢𐰑𐰢:𐰚𐰇𐰤𐱅𐰔:𐰆𐰞𐰺𐰢𐰑𐰢
- türük:bodun:üčün:tün:udïmadïm:küntüz:olurmadïm
- ...for the sake of the Turkic people, I did not sleep by night and I did not relax by day.
- 8th century CE, Kültegin Inscription, E27
Adverb
edit𐰚𐰇𐰤𐱅𐰔 (küntüz)
References
edit- Tekin, Talât (1968) “küntüz”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 354
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “küntüz”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 729