Old Turkic edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *sub (water). Cognate with Chuvash шыв (šyv), Khalaj suv, Turkish su (water), Uzbek suv, Bashkir һыу (hıw), Yakut уу (uu).

Noun edit

𐰽𐰆𐰉 (sub)

  1. water
    • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 33
      𐰚𐰃𐰓𐰃𐰔𐰃𐰏:𐰽𐰆𐰉𐰴𐰀:𐰽𐰆𐰸𐰢𐰃𐰾
      kidizig:subqa:soqmïš
      (A man) put the felt into water.
  2. river

Derived terms edit

References edit

  • Tekin, Talât (1968) “sub”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 369
  • Tekin, Talât (1993) “sub”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 62
  • Abuseitova, M. Kh, Bukhatuly, B., editors (2008), “𐰽𐰆𐰉”, in TÜRIK BITIG: Ethno Cultural Dictionary, Language Committee of Ministry of Culture and Information of Republic of Kazakhstan
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “su:v”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 783-784
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*sɨb”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill