𐱁

𐱁	U+10C41, 𐱁 OLD TURKIC LETTER ORKHON ESH

See also: 𐱀 and 𐱂

Old Turkic

Derived from Sogdian 𐼙 (š, “shin”) ultimately from Classical Syriac ܫ (“shin”).

𐱁 (š)

Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ş¹”, in The Origin of Turkic Runic Alphabet, London, pages 70 and 75
Tekin, Talât (1968) A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 27

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ẹ̄ĺ (friend, companion, mate). Cognate with Azerbaijani əş, Turkish eş (spouse, match), Tuvan эш (eş, “friend”).

𐱁 (éš)

friend, comrade
- 8th–10th century CE, Begre (e-11), B5:
  𐰦𐰞𐰍:𐰑𐰽𐰢:𐰀:𐰦𐰽𐰃𐰔𐰑:𐰀:𐰓𐰏𐰇:𐱁𐰢:𐰀:𐰑𐰺𐰞𐰑𐰢:𐰀
  antlïɣ:adašïm:a:antsïzïm:a:edgü:éšim:a:adrïldïm:a
  O my sworn and unsworn comrades, o my good companion! I departed!

Tekin, Talât (1968) “esi”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 331
Károly, László, Rentzsch, Julian, editors (2017), A Database of Turkic Runiform Insciptions‎^[1], Uppsala: Department of Linguistics and Philology
Clauson, Gerard (1972) “é:ş”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 253
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “eş”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ẹ̄ĺ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[2], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill