𐰾𐰇𐰭𐰜

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *siŋük (“bone”). Cognate with Chuvash шӑмӑ (šămă), Azerbaijani sümük (“bone”), Uzbek suyak, Bashkir һөйәк (höyək), Yakut уҥуох (uŋuoq).

Noun

𐰾𐰇𐰭𐰜 (süŋük)

  1. (anatomy) bone
    • 8th century CE, Kültegin Inscription, E24
      𐰾𐰇𐰭𐰜𐰇𐰭:𐱃𐰍𐰲𐰀:𐰖𐱃𐰑𐰃
      süŋüküŋ:taɣča:yatdï
      ...your bones heaped up like a mountain.

References

  • Tekin, Talât (1968), “süŋǖk”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 372
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972), “süŋük”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 838
  • Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*siŋök”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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