𐱇

𐱇 U+10C47, 𐱇 OLD TURKIC LETTER ORKHON OT ← 𐱆 [U+10C46] Old Turkic 𐱈 → [U+10C48]

Old Turkic

Etymology 1

Pictogram of grass, compare Proto-Turkic *ot (“grass”), whence Etymology 2.

Letter

𐱇 (t̥)

1. A letter of the Old Turkic runic script, representing /ot/.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ot (grass). Cognate with Chuvash утӑ (ut̬ă), Turkish ot (“grass, herb”), Azerbaijani ot, Turkmen ot, Uzbek oʻt, Bashkir ут (ut), Yakut от (ot).

Noun

𐱇 (ot)

1. grass, herb
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 17

     𐱅𐰭𐰼𐰃:𐰚𐰇𐰲𐰃𐰭𐰀:𐱃𐰍:𐰇𐰔𐰀:𐰖𐰆𐰞:𐰽𐰆𐰉:𐰆𐰇𐰼𐰇𐰯𐰤:𐰘𐰃𐰾:𐰇𐰔𐰀:𐰖𐰽:𐱇:𐰚𐰇𐰼𐰇𐰯𐰤:𐰖𐰆𐰺𐰃𐰖𐰆:𐰉𐰺𐰃𐰯𐰣:𐰽𐰆𐰉:𐰃𐰲𐰃𐰯𐰤:𐰖𐰀𐰽:𐰘𐰃𐰯𐰤:𐰇𐰠𐰇𐰢𐰓𐰀:𐰆𐰔𐰢𐰃𐰾:𐱅𐰃𐰼

     teŋri:küčüŋe:taɣ:üze:yol:sub:körüpen:yiš:üze:yāš:ot:körüpen:yorïyu:barïpan:sub:ičipen:yāš:yépen:ölümde:ozmïš:tér

     Thanks to the strength given by Heaven, having seen way (and) water on a mountain (and) having seen fresh grass on a mountain pasture, it went (there) walking. (Thus), drinking the water (and) eating the fresh grass it escaped death, it says.

References

• Tekin, Talât (1993) “ot”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 61
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ot”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 34
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ot”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill