mynk

Old Uyghur[edit]

**Old Uyghur cardinal numbers**
< 100	1,000	10,000 >
Cardinal : mynk (mïŋ) Ordinal : mynkync (mïŋïnč) Distributive : mynkʾr (mïŋar) Collective : mynkʾkw (mïŋaɣu)

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bïŋ (“thousand”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰋𐰃𐰭 (biŋ), Chuvash пин (pin, “thousand”), Khalaj ming (“thousand”), Turkish bin (“thousand”), Uzbek ming (“thousand”), Bashkir мең (meñ, “thousand”), Yakut муҥ (muñ, “thousand”). Compare also Mongolian мянга (mjanga, “thousand”).

mynk (mïŋ)

thousand
- 11th century CE, Story of Prince Kalyanamkara and Papamkara, XIII.4
  xʾzxʾnc nʾnk tʾryx tʾrymʾxdʾ ʾdkw ywx kym pyr tʾrysʾr mynk twymʾn pwlwr
  qazɣanč neŋ tarïɣ tarïmaqda edgü yoq kém bir tarïsar mïŋ tümen bolur
  There is no better way to gain than by cultivating the fields, when you sow one (seed), thousands, (if not) tens of thousands are obtained.

Hamilton, James (2020) Korkut, Ece, Birkan, İsmet, transl., Budacı İyi Kalpli ve Kötü Kalpli Prens Masalının Uygurcası - Prens Kalyāṇaṃkara ve Pāpaṃkara Hikâyesi (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları, →ISBN
Clauson, Gerard (1972) “bıŋ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 346-347