𐰛𐰈𐰤𐰾
Old Turkic
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *küneĺ (“sun, sunny place”). Cognate to 𐰚𐰇𐰤 (kün, “sun, day”), Compare Turkic cognates such as Chuvash хӗвел (hĕvel, “sun”), Turkish güneş (“sun, sunlight, sunny place”).
Noun
𐰛𐰈𐰤𐰾 (küneš)
- sunshine, sunlight
- sunny place
Related terms
- 𐰚𐰇𐰤 (kün, “sun, day”)
References
- Clauson, Gerard (1972), “küneş”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 734
- Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*güneĺ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online - Irk Bitig Omen No. 57