𐰋𐰤

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bẹ (“I”). Cognate with Chuvash эпӗ (ep̬ĕ, “I”), Khalaj mən (“I”), Turkish ben (“I”), Uzbek men (“I”), Bashkir мин (min, “I”), Yakut мин (min, “I”).

Pronoun

𐰋𐰤 (ben)

  1. first person singular pronoun
    • 8th century CE, Tonyukuk Inscription, IW7
      𐰋𐰠𐰏𐰾𐰃:𐰲𐰉𐰾𐰃:𐰋𐰤:𐰜:𐰼𐱅𐰢
      bilgesi:čabïšï:ben:ök:ertim
      I, myself, was his advisor and commander.

Suffix

𐰋𐰤 (ben)

  1. Alternative spelling of 𐰢𐰤 (men)

Alternative forms

Declension
Declension of 𐰋𐰤
singular
nominative 𐰋𐰤 (ben)
accusative 𐰋𐰃𐰤𐰃 (béni)
genitive 𐰋𐰤𐰭 (beniŋ)
dative-locative 𐰉𐰭𐰀 (baŋa)
locative-ablative 𐰋𐰦𐰀 (bente)
ablative 𐰋𐰦𐰤 (bentin)
allative 𐰉𐰭𐰺𐰆 (baŋaru)
equative 𐰋𐰨𐰀 (benče)
instrumental 𐰋𐰤𐰃𐰤 (benin)

See also
Old Turkic personal pronouns
singular plural
1st person 𐰋𐰤 (ben), 𐰢𐰤 (men) 𐰋𐰃𐰕 (biz)
2nd person 𐰾𐰤 (sen) 𐰾𐰃𐰕 (siz)
3rd person 𐰆𐰞 (ol)

References
  • Tekin, Talât (1968) “bän”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 312
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ben”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 346
  • 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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