𐰚𐰇𐰠

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kȫl (“lake”). Cognate with Chuvash кӳлӗ (külĕ), Turkish göl, Uzbek koʻl, Bashkir күл (kül), Yakut күөл (küöl).

Noun

𐰚𐰇𐰠 (köl)

  1. lake
    • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 22
      𐰆𐰔𐰆𐰣𐱃𐰆𐰣𐰞𐰆𐰍:𐰚𐰇𐰔𐰭𐰇𐰾𐰃𐰤:𐰚𐰇𐰠𐰚𐰀:𐰃𐰲𐰍𐰣𐰢𐰃𐰾
      uzuntonluɣ:közŋüsin:kölke:ïčɣïnmïš
      A woman dropped her mirror into a lake.

Derived terms
  • 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰏𐰃:𐰖𐰺𐰍𐰆𐰣:𐰚𐰇𐰠 (Türgi Yarɣun Köl, “A lake around the vicinity of the Tuul River”)

References
  • Tekin, Talât (1968) “köl”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 352
  • Tekin, Talât (1993) “köl”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 58
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kö:l”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 715
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*kȫl”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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