بلدو
Karakhanid
Etymology
Inherited from Common Turkic *baltu (“axe”).[1]
Cognate with Chuvash пуртӑ (purt̬ă), Turkish balta, Uzbek bolta and Bashkir балта (balta).
Noun
بَلْدُو (baldū)
- axe
- اُتُونكْ كَساسٖى بَلْدُو ― Otūŋ kesēsī baldū. ― An axe for cutting firewood.
References
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “baltu:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 333
Further reading
- al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume I, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 418
Malay
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