Old Turkic

Proper noun

𐱅𐰭𐰼𐰃 ‎(Teŋri)

1. Tengri, the chief deity of Turkic mythology.

Noun

𐱅𐰭𐰼𐰃 ‎(teŋri)

1. god
2. sky, heaven

Synonyms

• (sky): 𐰚𐰇𐰚 ‎(kök)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 523-524
• Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*teŋri / *taŋrɨ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill