Old Turkic

Verb

𐰋𐰃𐰠 ‎(bil-)

1. to know

Related terms

• 𐰋𐰃𐰠𐰢𐰀 ‎(bilme-)
• 𐰋𐰃𐰠𐰼 ‎(bilir)
• 𐰋𐰃𐰠𐰢𐰕 ‎(bilmez)
• 𐰋𐰃𐰠𐰏 ‎(bilig)
• 𐰋𐰃𐰠𐰏𐰀 ‎(bilge)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Turkic *bẹ̄l(k) ‎(“waist”). Compare Turkish bel ‎(“waist”).

Noun

𐰋𐰃𐰠 ‎(bél)

1. waist

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 330
• Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*bil-”, 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), “*bẹ̄l(k)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill