< Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic
Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/bitig
Proto-Turkic
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *biti- (“to write”).
Noun
*bitig
- inscription, scripture
Descendants
- Oghur:
- Chuvash: пӗтӳ (pĕt̬ü, “amulet”)
- Common Turkic:
- Oghuz:
- Old Anatolian Turkish: بتى (biti, “letter, written document”)
- Azerbaijani: bitik (archaic)
- Ottoman Turkish: بتى (biti, “letter, written document; memory (literature); bill, document”)
- Salar: bitik
- Old Anatolian Turkish: بتى (biti, “letter, written document”)
- Karluk:
- Karakhanid: [script needed] (bitig), [script needed] (bitik)
- Khorezmian Turkic: [Term?]
- → Bulgar: بطك (bitik)
- Chagatai: [Term?]
- Uyghur: بيتىك (bytik)
- Khorezmian Turkic: [Term?]
- Karakhanid: [script needed] (bitig), [script needed] (bitik)
- Kipchak:
- North Kipchak:
- Bashkir: бетеү (betew, “amulet”)
- Tatar: бөти (böti, “letter, amulet”)
- West Kipchak:
- Karaim: битик
- Kumyk: битик (bitik, “amulet”)
- South Kipchak:
- Caspian:
- Kazakh: бітік (bitik, “letter, scripture”)
- Caspian:
- North Kipchak:
- Siberian:
- Old Turkic: 𐰋𐰃𐱅𐰏 (bitig)
- Old Uyghur: [script needed] (bitig)
- Western Yugur: [script needed] (pïʰtïɣ, “book”)
- → Mongolian: бичиг (bichig)
- → Kyrgyz: бичик (biçik, “book of Kalmyk”)
- → Southern Altai: бичик (bičik, “book”)
- → Khakas: пічік (pìçìk, “book”)
- → Shor: пичик (“script, alphabet”)
- → Tuvan: бижик (bijik)
- → Yakut: бичик (biçik)