𐰚𐰦𐰇
Old Turkic
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kẹntü (“self”). Cognate with Turkish kendi (“self”), Yakut кини (kini, “third person singular pronoun”).
Pronoun
𐰚𐰦𐰇 (kntü /kentü/)
- self
- Synonym: 𐰇𐰔 (üz /öz/)
References
- Tekin, Talât (1968) “käntü”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 350
- Abuseitova, M. Kh, Bukhatuly, B., editors (2008), “𐰚𐰤𐱅𐰇”, in TÜRIK BITIG, Language Committee of Ministry of Culture and Information of Republic of Kazakhstan
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kentü:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 728
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*gẹntü (-nd-)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill