𐰸𐰆𐰞𐰴𐰴
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Old Turkic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
𐰸𐰆𐰞𐰴𐰴 (qulqaq)
- (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...
- 8th century CE, Bilge Khagan Inscription, N11
References[edit]
- 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