𐰞𐰯

Old Turkic edit

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *alp (“difficult, hard, brave; warrior”). Cognate with Chuvash улӑп (ulăp), Turkish alp (“hero”), Uzbek alp, Kazakh алып (alyp, “giant”), Tatar алып (alıp, “giant”), Yakut алып (alıp, “craftiness, deception, magic”).

𐰞𐰯 (alp)

𐰞𐰯 (alp)

difficult, hard, tough
- 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 40
  𐰦𐰍:𐰞𐰯:𐰼𐰢𐰃𐰾
  antaɣ:alp:ermiš
  That tough was he.
brave
stout

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Clauson, Gerard (1972) “alp”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 127
Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ălpa”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill