𐰆

Old Turkic

Etymology 1

Letter

𐰆 (o, u)

1. A letter of the Old Turkic runic script, representing /o/ or /u/.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Turkic *ū (“sleep”). Compare Karakhanid اُو (ū, “sleep”), Yakut уу (uu, “sleep”).

Noun

𐰆 (u)

1. sleep

Related terms

• 𐰆𐰑𐰃 (udï-)

Etymology 3

From Proto-Turkic *u- (“to be able, capable”). Compare Karakhanid اُغَنْ (uɣan, “having power over all things”), Turkish -a-ma- (“not to be able”).

Verb

𐰆 (u-)

1. to be able, be capable

Related terms

• 𐰆𐰢𐰀 (uma-)

Etymology 4

From Proto-Turkic *-u. Cognate with Turkish -u, -ı.

Suffix

𐰆 (-u)

1. Makes adverbs out of verbs yielding "by ...-ing"

Related terms

• 𐰖𐰆 (-yu)
• 𐰇 (-ü)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “u:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 2
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*u(j)-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ū-dɨ-, *ū-dɨ-k-la-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill