𐰚𐰇𐰚

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kȫk (blue, green). Cognate with Old Uyghur 𐽷𐽳𐽶𐽷 (kwyk /⁠kök⁠/), Chuvash кӑвак (kăvak), Khalaj kö̂k, Turkish gök, Uzbek koʻk, Bashkir күк (kük), Yakut күөх (küöq) and also Hungarian kék, a Turkic borrowing.

Adjective

𐰚𐰇𐰚 (kök)

  1. blue, green

Derived terms

  • 𐰚𐰇𐰚:𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜 (Kök Türük, Göktürk)

See also

Colors in Old Turkic · *𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰍 (*b¹ud¹ǧ /⁠*boduɣ⁠/) (layout · text)
     𐰀𐰴 (aq /⁠aq⁠/), 𐰇𐰼𐰭 (ür²ŋ /⁠ürüŋ⁠/)      𐰉𐰆𐰔 (b¹uz /⁠boz⁠/)      𐰴𐰺𐰀 (qr¹a /⁠qara⁠/)
             𐰶𐰃𐰔𐰞 (q̊²izl¹ /⁠qïzïl⁠/), 𐰞 ( /⁠al⁠/)              𐰘𐰏𐰼𐰤 (y²gr²n² /⁠yägrän⁠/), 𐱃𐰆𐰺𐰍 (t¹ur¹ǧ /⁠toruɣ⁠/); 𐰖𐰍𐰔 (y¹ǧz /⁠yaɣïz⁠/), 𐰉𐰆𐰔 (b¹uz /⁠boz⁠/)              𐰽𐰺𐰍 (s¹r¹ǧ /⁠sarïɣ⁠/)
                          𐰚𐰇𐰚 (kük /⁠kök⁠/), 𐰖𐱁𐰞 (y¹šl¹ /⁠yašïl⁠/)             
                          𐰚𐰇𐰚 (kük /⁠kök⁠/)             
                                      

References

  • Tekin, Talât (1968) “kök”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 351
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kö:k”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 708
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*gȫk”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill