Old Turkic

Letter

𐰉 ‎(b¹)

1. A letter of the Old Turkic runic script, representing /b/, used with back vowels.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Turkic *Āb ‎(“hunt, chase”). Compare Turkish av ‎(“hunt, hunting”), Turkmen áw ‎(“hunt”).

Noun

𐰉 ‎(ab)

1. hunt, hunting expedition

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 3
• Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*Āb”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill