𐰾𐰇𐰭𐰜
Old Turkic
editEtymology
editInherited from Proto-Turkic *siŋük (“bone”). Cognate with Chuvash шӑмӑ (šămă), Azerbaijani sümük (“bone”), Uzbek suyak, Bashkir һөйәк (höyək), Yakut уҥуох (uñuoq).
Noun
edit𐰾𐰇𐰭𐰜 (süŋük)
- (anatomy) bone
- 8th century CE, Kültegin Inscription, E24
- 𐰾𐰇𐰭𐰜𐰇𐰭:𐱃𐰍𐰲𐰀:𐰖𐱃𐰑𐰃
- süŋüküŋ:taɣča:yatdï
- ...your bones heaped up like a mountain.
- 8th century CE, Kültegin Inscription, E24
References
edit- Tekin, Talât (1968) “süŋǖk”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 372
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “süŋük”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 838
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*siŋök”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill