𐰲

Old Turkic

Etymology 1

Letter

𐰲 (č)

1. A letter of the Old Turkic runic script, representing /č/.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Turkic *ač- (“to open”). Compare Turkish aç- (“to open”).

Verb

𐰲 (ač-)

1. to open

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “aç”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 18
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ač-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill