𐰋𐰃𐰕

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *biŕ (we). Cognate with Chuvash эпир (ep̬ir), Khalaj biz, Turkish biz, Turkish -iz, Uzbek biz, Bashkir беҙ (beź), Yakut биһиги (bihigi).

Pronoun

𐰋𐰃𐰕 (biz)

  1. the first person plural pronoun

Suffix

𐰋𐰃𐰕 (biz)

  1. Denotes first person plural after certain verb tenses.
    𐰴𐰡𐰲𐰃:𐰋𐰔qaltačï:bizWe are going to stay.
  2. Denotes "to be" for first person plural
    𐰕:𐰋𐰃𐰕az:bizWe are few.

Declension

See also

References

  • Tekin, Talât (1968) “biz”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 316
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “biz”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 388
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bẹ-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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