𐰚𐰠

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kẹl-. Cognate with Chuvash кил (kil), Old Uyghur 𐽷𐽰𐾁𐽹𐽰𐽷 (kelmek), Khalaj kəlmək, Turkish gelmek, Uzbek kelmoq, Bashkir килеү (kilew), Yakut кэл (kel).

Verb

𐰚𐰠 (kel-)

1. (intransitive) to come
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 7

     𐰼:𐱅𐰼𐰚𐰠𐰘𐰇:𐰚𐰠𐰃𐰼

     er:terkleyü:kelir

     A man comes hurriedly.

Derived terms

• 𐰚𐰠𐰇𐰼 (kelür-, “to get”)

References

• Tekin, Talât (1968) “käl-”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 349
• Tekin, Talât (1993) “k(ä)l-”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 57
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kel-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 715
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*gẹl-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill