𐰋𐰃𐰭

Old Turkic

Old Turkic cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : 𐰋𐰃𐰭 (biŋ)     Ordinal : 𐰋𐰃𐰭𐰨 (biŋinč)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bïŋ (“thousand”). Cognate with Chuvash пин (pin), Khalaj ming, Turkish bin (“thousand”), Turkmen müň (“thousand”), Uzbek ming, Bashkir мең (meñ, “thousand”), Yakut муҥ (muñ). Compare also Mongolian мянга (mjanga) and Manchu ᠮᡳᠩᡤᠠᠨ (minggan).

Numeral

𐰋𐰃𐰭 (biŋ)

1. thousand
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 32

     𐰋𐰃𐰼:𐱃𐰉𐰞𐰴𐰆:𐰘𐰇𐰔:𐰉𐰆𐰞𐱃𐰃:𐰘𐰇𐰔:𐱃𐰉𐰞𐰴𐰆:𐰢𐰃𐰭:𐰉𐰆𐰞𐱃𐰃:𐰢𐰃𐰭:𐱃𐰉𐰞𐰴𐰆:𐱅𐰇𐰢𐰤:𐰉𐰆𐰞𐱃𐰃:𐱅𐰃𐰼

     bir:tabïlqu:yüz:boltï:yüz:tabïlqu:miŋ:boltï:miŋ:tabïlqu:tümen:boltï:tér

     One spriaea became a hundred; a hundred spiraeas became a thousand (and) a thousand spiraeas became ten thousand, it says.

Alternative forms

• 𐰉𐰃𐰭 (bïŋ)
• 𐰢𐰃𐰭 (miŋ, mïŋ) (nasalized)

References

• Tekin, Talât (1968) “biŋ”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 314
• Tekin, Talât (1993) “miŋ”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 59
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “bıŋ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 346-347
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bɨŋ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill