𐰋𐰇𐰝
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Old Turkic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Derived from Proto-Turkic *bük- (“to bend”). Cognate with Turkish bük, bükmek.
Noun[edit]
𐰋𐰇𐰝 (bük)
- corner
- 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 9
- 𐰴𐱃𐰃𐰭𐰀:𐱅𐰏𐰃:𐰴𐰞𐰢𐰑𐰸:𐰋𐰇𐰝𐰃𐰭𐰀:𐱅𐰏𐰃:𐰴𐰆𐰑𐰢𐰸:𐱅𐰃𐰼
- qatïŋa:tegi:qalmaduq:bükiŋe:tegi:qodmaduq:tér
- Nothing remained right to its floors (and) nothing was left right to its corners, it says.
- 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 9
References[edit]
- Tekin, Talât (1993) “bük”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 53
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “bük”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 324
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bük-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill