𐰃
Old Turkic
Etymology 1
Letter
𐰃 (i, é, ï)
- A letter of the Old Turkic runic script, representing /i/ /é/ or /ï/. The backness or frontness depends on the type of the consonant.
Etymology 2
From Proto-Turkic *ï (“bush, tree”). Cognate with Old Uyghur ՚y (ï, “plant”), Karakhanid يٖيكٖى (yigi, “bushy”).
Noun
𐰃 (ï)
Related terms
- 𐰃𐰍𐰲 (ïɣač)
Etymology 3
From Proto-Turkic *-ï. Cognate with Turkish -ı, -i (“3rd person possessive suffix”).
Suffix
𐰃 (-ï or -i)
- 3rd person possessive suffix.
See also
- 𐰾𐰃 (-si)
References
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ı:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 1
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ɨ, *ɨ-(ń)gač”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill