𐰚𐰦𐰇

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kẹntü (“self”). Cognate with Turkish kendi (“self”), Yakut кини (kini, “third person singular pronoun”).

Pronoun

𐰚𐰦𐰇 (kentü)

  1. self
    Synonym: 𐰇𐰔 (öz)
    • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 66
      𐰨𐰯:𐰞𐰴𐰆:𐰚𐰤𐱅𐰇:𐰇𐰠𐰇𐰏𐰃:𐰼𐰚𐰠𐰃𐰏:𐰆𐰞
      ančïp:alqu:kentü:ülügi:erklig:ol
      Thus, everyone is master of their own fate.

Alternative forms
  • 𐰚𐰤𐱅𐰇 (kentü) (Irq Bitig)

References
  • Tekin, Talât (1968) “käntü”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 350
  • Tekin, Talât (1993) “k(ä)ntü”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 58
  • Abuseitova, M. Kh, Bukhatuly, B., editors (2008), “𐰚𐰤𐱅𐰇”, in TÜRIK BITIG, Language Committee of Ministry of Culture and Information of Republic of Kazakhstan
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kentü:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 728
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*gẹntü (-nd-)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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