Old Turkic

Letter

𐰃 ‎(i, é, ï)

1. A letter of the Old Turkic runic script, representing /i/ /é/ or /ï/. The backness or frontness depends on the type of the consonant.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Turkic *ɨ ‎(“bush, tree”). Cognate with Old Uighur [script needed] ‎(ï, “bush”), Karakhanid [script needed] ‎(yigi, “bushy”).

Noun

𐰃 ‎(ï)

1. bush (singular or collective)
2. tree

Related terms

• 𐰃𐰍𐰲 ‎(ïɣač)

Etymology 3

From Proto-Turkic [Term?]. Cognate with Turkish -ı, -i ‎(“3rd person possessive suffix”).

Suffix

𐰃 ‎(-ï or -i)

1. 3rd person possessive suffix.

See also

• 𐰾𐰃 ‎(-si)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 1
• Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*ɨ, *ɨ-(ń)gač”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill