𐰴𐰆𐰍𐰆

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kugu (“swan”). Cognate with Karakhanid قُغُو (quɣū, “swan”), Turkish kuğu (“swan”), Turkmen guw (“swan”), Uyghur قۇ (qu), Kyrgyz куу (kuu, “swan”), Tuvan куу (kuu).

Noun

𐰴𐰆𐰍𐰆 (quɣu)

  1. swan
    • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 35
      𐰼:𐰴𐰆𐰍𐰆:𐰴𐰆𐰽𐰴𐰀:𐰽𐰆𐰴𐰆𐰽𐰢𐰾
      er:quɣu:qušqa:soqušmuš
      (Then) the man met a swan.

References
  • Tekin, Talât (1993) “kugu”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 57
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kuğu:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 609
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kugu”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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