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/)

  1. 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