𐱅𐰇𐰼𐱅

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tȫrt (“four”). Cognate with Chuvash тӑваттӑ (tăvattă, “four”), Khalaj tö̂rt (“four”), Turkish dört (“four”), Turkmen dȫrt (“four”), Uzbek toʻrt (“four”), Bashkir дүрт (dürt, “four”), Yakut түөрт (tüört, “four”).

𐱅𐰇𐰼𐱅 (tört)

1. four
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 28

     𐱅𐰇𐰼𐱅:𐰉𐰆𐰞𐰆𐰭𐱃𐰴𐰃:𐰓𐰏𐰇𐰾𐰃:𐰆𐰖𐰆𐰺𐰃:𐱅𐰃𐰼𐰃𐰠𐰃𐰯𐰤:𐰢𐰭𐰃𐰠𐰘𐰇𐰼:𐰋𐰓𐰃𐰔𐰠𐰘𐰇𐰼:𐱅𐰃𐰼

     tört:buluŋtaqï:edgüsi:uyurï:tirilipen:meŋileyür:bedizleyür:tér

     The good (and) skillful men in four quarters of the world, having assembled (there), rejoice and adorn (his court), it says.

• Tekin, Talât (1968) “tört”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 385
• Tekin, Talât (1993) “tört”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 65
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “tört”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 534
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*dȫrt”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill