𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰣

Old Turkic

Etymology

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

Noun

𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰣 (bodun)

1. (anthropology, sociology) people, nation

References

• Tekin, Talât (1968), “bodun”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 317
• Clauson, Gerard (1972), “boḏun”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, 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