𐰚𐰇𐰚

𐰚𐰇𐰚

Old Turkic

Alternative forms

• (Irk Bitig) 𐰛𐰈𐰛‎ (kȫk)

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *gȫk (“blue, green”). Compare Bashkir күк (kük, “blue, green, gray, sky”), Turkish gök (“sky”), Turkmen gȫk (“blue, green, sky”).

Adjective

𐰚𐰇𐰚 (kȫk)

1. blue

Noun

𐰚𐰇𐰚 (kȫk)

1. sky

Synonyms

• (sky): 𐱅𐰭𐰼𐰃‎ (teŋri)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972), “a:k”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 708
• Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*gȫk”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill