Old Turkic edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kïĺ (winter). Cognate with Chuvash хӗл (hĕl), Turkish kış (winter), Khalaj qış, Uzbek kish, Bashkir ҡыш (qış), Yakut кыһын (kıhın).

Noun edit

𐰶𐰃𐱁 (qïš)

  1. winter
    • 8th century CE, Bilge Khagan Inscription, S2
      𐰆𐱃𐰔:𐰺𐱃𐰸𐰃:𐰾𐰚𐰔:𐰖𐱁𐰢𐰀:𐰶𐰃𐱁𐰣:𐰶𐰃𐱃𐰪:𐱃𐰯𐰀:𐰾𐰇𐰠𐰓𐰢
      otuz:artuqï:sekiz:yašïma:qïšïn:qïtań:tapa:süledim
      At the age of thirty-eight, in winter, I went on a campaign against the Khitan Empire.

Derived terms edit

See also edit

Seasons in Old Turkic (layout · text) · category
𐰖𐰔 (yaz, spring) 𐰖𐰖 (yay, summer) 𐰚𐰇𐰔 (küz, autumn) 𐰶𐰃𐱁 (qïš, winter)

References edit

  • Tekin, Talât (1968) “qïš”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 345
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kış”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 670
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kɨĺ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill