𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰣

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bodun (“people, nation”), possibly equivalent to 𐰉𐰆𐰑 (bod, “stature; tribe”) +‎ 𐰣 (-an, “plural suffix”) +‎ 𐰤 (n²).

Noun

𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰣 (bodun)

1. people, nation, population, ordinary people
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 53

     𐰉𐰆𐰔:𐰉𐰆𐰞𐰃𐱃:𐰖𐰆𐰺𐰃𐰑𐰃:𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰆𐰣:𐰇𐰔𐰀:𐰖𐰍𐰑𐰃

     boz:bulït:yorïdï:bodun:üze:yaɣdï

     A gray cloud passed; it rained over people.

References

• Tekin, Talât (1968) “bodun”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 317
• Tekin, Talât (1993) “bodun”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 52
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “boḏun”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 306
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bodun”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill