𐰉

Old Turkic

Etymology 1

Letter

𐰉 (b¹)

1. A letter of the Old Turkic runic script, representing /b/, used with back vowels.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Turkic *āb (“hunt, chase”). Compare Turkish av (“hunt, hunting”), Turkmen āw (“hunt”).

Noun

𐰉 (ab)

1. hunt, hunting expedition

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “a:v”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 3
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Āb”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill