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Old Turkic
Letter
𐰆 (o, u)
- A letter of the Old Turkic runic script, representing /o/ or /u/.
Etymology 2
From Proto-Turkic *ū (“sleep”). Compare Karakhanid اُو (ū, “sleep”), Yakut уу (uu, “sleep”).
Noun
𐰆 (u)
- sleep
Related terms
- 𐰆𐰑𐰃 (udï-)
Etymology 3
From Proto-Turkic *u- (“to be able, capable”). Compare Karakhanid اُغَنْ (uɣan, “having power over all things”), Turkish -a-ma- (“not to be able”).
Verb
𐰆 (u-)
- to be able, be capable
Related terms
- 𐰆𐰢𐰀 (uma-)
Etymology 4
From Proto-Turkic *-u. Cognate with Turkish -u, -ı.
Suffix
𐰆 (-u)
- Makes adverbs out of verbs yielding "by ...-ing"
Related terms
- 𐰖𐰆 (-yu)
- 𐰇 (-ü)
References
- Clauson, Gerard (1972), “u:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 2
- Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*u(j)-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*ū-dɨ-, *ū-dɨ-k-la-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill