𐰸𐰆𐰞𐰴𐰴

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Old Turkic

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kulkak (ear). Cognate with Chuvash хӑлха (hălh̬a), Khalaj qulaq, Karakhanid قُلْقاقْ (qulqaq), قُلْخاقْ (qulχaq, ear), Old Uyghur [script needed] (qulqaq, ear), Turkish kulak (ear), Uzbek quloq, Bashkir ҡолаҡ (qolaq), Yakut кулгаах (kulgaaq, ear). Compare also Mongolian хулхи (xulxi).

Noun

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𐰸𐰆𐰞𐰴𐰴 (qulqaq)

  1. (anatomy) ear
    • 8th century CE, Bilge Khagan Inscription, N11
      𐰚𐰇𐰕𐰤:𐰚𐰇𐰼𐰢𐰓𐰜:𐰸𐰆𐰞𐰴𐰴𐰣:𐰾𐰓𐰢𐰓𐰜:𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰣𐰢𐰣
      közün:körmedük:qulqaqïn:ešidmedük:bodunumun
      ...my people who have not been seen by eye and have not been heard by ear...

References

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  • Tekin, Talât (1968) “qulqaq”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 347
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kulkak”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 621
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kul-kak”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill