Old Turkic edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *-siŕ (-less). Cognate with Old Uyghur -syz (-siz), Chuvash -сӗр (-sĕr), Turkish -siz, Uzbek -siz, Bashkir -һеҙ (-heź), Tuvan -сиз (-siz).

Suffix edit

𐰾𐰔 (-siz, -süz)

  1. -less; a suffix denoting the lack of something

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References edit

  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page xlii
  • Erdal, Marcel (2004) “+s(X)z”, in A Grammar of Old Turkic (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 8 Uralic & Central Asian Studies; 3), Brill Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 149