𐰇𐰠

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *öl- (“to die”). Cognate with Chuvash вил (vil), Khalaj hölmək, Turkish öl- (“to die”), Uzbek oʻlmoq, Bashkir үлеү (ülew), Yakut өл (öl).

Verb

𐰇𐰠 (öl-)

1. (intransitive) to die

   Synonym: 𐰆𐰲 (uč-)

   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 41

     𐰇𐰠𐰏𐰖:𐰢𐰤:𐱅𐰃𐰢𐰾

     ölgey:men:témiš

     She said: 'I am about to die!'

Alternative forms

• 𐰈𐰠 (öl-) (Irk Bitig)

Derived terms

• 𐰇𐰠𐰇𐰼 (ölür-, “to kill”)
• 𐰇𐰠𐰏 (ölüg, “dead”)
• 𐰈𐰠𐰈𐰢 (ölüm, “death”) (Irk Bitig)
• 𐰇𐰠𐰏𐰠𐰃 (ölgeli, “mortal”)
• 𐰇𐰠𐱅 (ölüt-, “to cause to be killed”)

References

• Tekin, Talât (1968) “öl-”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 363
• Tekin, Talât (1993) “öl-”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 61
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “öl-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 125
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*öl-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill