swʾ
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Old Uyghur
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Middle Chinese 鎖 (suɑX).
Noun
[edit]swʾ (sua)
- chain
- 11th century CE, Story of Prince Kalyanamkara and Papamkara, XXXI.5
- yyty tymyr swʾ kmy swlʾp twrxwrdy
- yéti temir sua kémi sualap turɣurdï
- Seven iron chains bound and immobilized the ship.
- 11th century CE, Story of Prince Kalyanamkara and Papamkara, XXXI.5
Derived terms
[edit]- swlʾ- (suala-, “to bound”)
References
[edit]- 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) “so:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 781