𐰉𐰆𐰞

Old Turkic

Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *bōl- (“to become”). Cognate with Bashkir булыу (bulïw), Chuvash пулма (pulma), Karakhanid [script needed] (bolmāq), Kazakh болу (bolw), Khakas поларға (polarğa), Kyrgyz болуу (boluu), Southern Altai болор (bolor), Turkmen bōlmak, Tuvan болур (bolur), Uyghur بولماق‎ (bolmaq), Uzbek boʻlmoq, Yakut буол (buol). Possibly cognate with Azerbaijani olmaq, Crimean Tatar olmaq, Turkish olmak.

Verb

𐰉𐰆𐰞 (bol-)

1. to become
2. to happen

Related terms

• 𐰉𐰆𐰞𐰢𐰀‎ (bolma-)

See also

• 𐰼‎ (er-)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Turkic *bul- (“to find”). Cognate with Azerbaijani bulmaq, Turkish bulmak, Yakut бул (bul).

Verb

𐰉𐰆𐰞 (bul-)

1. to find, to attain

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972), “bol-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 331
• Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*bōl-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
• Clauson, Gerard (1972), “bul-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 332
• Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*bul-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill