𐰋𐰇𐰝

Old Turkic

Etymology

Derived from Proto-Turkic *bük- (“to bend”). Cognate with Turkish bük, bükmek.

Noun

𐰋𐰇𐰝 (bük)

1. corner
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 9

     𐰴𐱃𐰃𐰭𐰀:𐱅𐰏𐰃:𐰴𐰞𐰢𐰑𐰸:𐰋𐰇𐰝𐰃𐰭𐰀:𐱅𐰏𐰃:𐰴𐰆𐰑𐰢𐰸:𐱅𐰃𐰼

     qatïŋa:tegi:qalmaduq:bükiŋe:tegi:qodmaduq:tér

     Nothing remained right to its floors (and) nothing was left right to its corners, it says.

References

• Tekin, Talât (1993) “bük”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 53
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “bük”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 324
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bük-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill