𐰃

Old Turkic

Etymology 1

Letter

𐰃 (i, é, ï)

1. 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)

1. bush (singular or collective)
2. tree

Related terms

• 𐰃𐰍𐰲 (ïɣač)

Etymology 3

From Proto-Turkic *-ï. Cognate with Turkish -ı, -i (“3rd person possessive suffix”).

Suffix

𐰃 (-ï or -i)

1. 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