𐰾𐰃𐰕

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *siŕ (“you”). Cognate with Chuvash эсир (es̬ir), Khalaj siz, Turkish siz, Uzbek siz, Bashkir һеҙ (heź), Yakut эһиги (ehigi).

Pronoun

𐰾𐰃𐰕 (siz)

1. the second person plural pronoun

Suffix

𐰾𐰃𐰕 (siz)

1. Denotes second person plural after certain verb tenses.

   𐰖𐰭𐰡𐰲𐰃:𐰾𐰃𐰕 ― yaŋïltačï:siz ― You will be wrong.

2. Denotes "to be" for second person plural

   𐰋:𐰾𐰃𐰕 ― eb:siz. ― You are houses.

See also

Old Turkic personal pronouns

		singular	plural
1st person		𐰋𐰤 (ben), 𐰢𐰤 (men)	𐰋𐰃𐰕 (biz)
2nd person		𐰾𐰤 (sen)	𐰾𐰃𐰕 (siz)
3rd person		𐰆𐰞 (ol)

References

• Tekin, Talât (1968) “siz”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 369
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “si:z”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 860
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*sẹ-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill