Old Turkic

Letter

𐰆 ‎(o, u)

1. A letter of the Old Turkic runic script, representing /o/ or /u/.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Turkic *ū ‎(“sleep”). Compare Karakhanid [script needed] ‎(ū, “sleep”), Yakut уу ‎(uu, “sleep”).

Noun

𐰆 ‎(u)

1. sleep

Related terms

• 𐰆𐰑𐰃 ‎(udï-)

Etymology 3

From Proto-Turkic *u(j)- ‎(“to be able, capable”). Compare Karakhanid [script needed] ‎(u-, “to be able”), Yakut уй ‎(uy, “to stand, persist”).

Verb

𐰆 ‎(u-)

1. to be able, be capable

Related terms

• 𐰆𐰢𐰀 ‎(uma-)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 2
• Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*u(j)-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
• Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*ū-dɨ-, *ū-dɨ-k-la-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill