𐰯𐰀
Old Turkic edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *apa (“father”). Cognate to Karakhanid اَبا (apā, “father, bear”), Old Uyghur ʾʾpʾ (apa, “ancestor”), Khakas аба (aba, “father”). Compare also Buryat аба (aba, “father”), Mongolian авга (avga, “paternal uncle”), ав (av, “father”).
Noun edit
𐰯𐰀 (apa)
- ancestor, father, forefather
- 8th century CE, Kültegin Inscription, E1
- 𐰚𐰃𐰾𐰃:𐰆𐰍𐰞𐰃𐰦𐰀:𐰇𐰔𐰀:𐰲𐰃𐰢:𐰯𐰀𐰢:𐰉𐰆𐰢𐰣:𐰴𐰍𐰣:𐰃𐰾𐱅𐰢𐰃:𐰴𐰍𐰣:𐰆𐰞𐰺𐰢𐱁
- kiši:oɣlïnta:üze:ečim:apam:bumïn:qaɣan:istemi:qaɣan:olurmïš
- Over the human beings, my ancestors Bumin Khagan and Istemi Khagan became rulers.
- 8th century CE, Kültegin Inscription, E1
References edit
- Tekin, Talât (1968) “apā”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 303
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “apa”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 5
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*apa (*appa)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill