𐰾𐰇𐰔

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *söŕ. Cognate of Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Crimean Tatar, and Khalaj söz, Uzbek soʻz, Kazakh and Kyrgyz сөз (söz), Tatar сүз (süz), Bashkir һүҙ (hüź), Yakut өс (ös), etc.

Noun

𐰾𐰇𐰔 (söz)

1. word, tidings, message
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 5

     𐰓𐰏𐰇:𐰾𐰇𐰔:𐰽𐰉:𐰠𐱅𐰃:𐰚𐰠𐰃𐰼:𐱅𐰃𐰼

     edgü:söz:sab:eltdi:kelir:tér

     He comes bringing good tidings, it says.

Derived terms

• 𐰾𐰇𐰔𐰠𐱁 (sözleš-, “to agree, to consult”)

References

• Tekin, Talât (1993) “söz”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 62
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “sö:z”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 860
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*söŕ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill