𐰋𐰤

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”).

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.

𐰋𐰤 (ben)

1. alternative spelling of 𐰢𐰤 (men)

• 𐰢𐰤 (men) (nasalized)
• 𐰌𐰥 (ben) (Yenisei Kyrgyz)

• 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, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 346
• Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*bẹ-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill