𐰚𐰃

Old Turkic

Alternative forms

• (Irk Bitig) 𐰛𐰃 (eki)

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ẹk(k)i (“two”). Compare Turkish iki (“two”).

Numeral

𐰚𐰃 (eki)

1. two

Related terms

• 𐰚𐰃𐰤 (ekin)
• 𐰚𐰦𐰃 (ekinti)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ékki:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 100-101
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ẹk(k)i”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill