𐰇𐰠

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *öl- (“to die”). Cognate with Chuvash вил (vil), Khalaj hölmək, Turkish öl- (“to die”), Uzbek oʻlmoq, Bashkir үлеү (ülew), Yakut өл (öl).

Verb

𐰇𐰠 (öl-)

  1. (intransitive) to die
    Synonym: 𐰆𐰲 (uč-)
    • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 41
      𐰇𐰠𐰏𐰖:𐰢𐰤:𐱅𐰃𐰢𐰾
      ölgey:men:témiš
      She said: 'I am about to die!'

Alternative forms

Derived terms
  • 𐰇𐰠𐰇𐰼 (ölür-, “to kill”)
  • 𐰇𐰠𐰏 (ölüg, “dead”)
  • 𐰈𐰠𐰈𐰢 (ölüm, “death”) (Irk Bitig)
  • 𐰇𐰠𐰏𐰠𐰃 (ölgeli, “mortal”)
  • 𐰇𐰠𐱅 (ölüt-, “to cause to be killed”)

References
  • Tekin, Talât (1968) “öl-”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 363
  • Tekin, Talât (1993) “öl-”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 61
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “öl-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 125
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*öl-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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