Old Turkic

Letter

𐰇 ‎(ö, ü)

1. A letter of the Old Turkic runic script, representing /ö/ or /ü/.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Turkic *ȫ(j)- ‎(“to think understand”). Compare Karakhanid [script needed] ‎(ȫ-, “to understand”), Old Uighur [script needed] ‎(ö-, “to think, remember”).

Verb

𐰇 ‎(ö-)

1. to think, think of, remember

Related terms

• 𐰇𐰢𐰀 ‎(öme-)

See also

• 𐰽𐰴𐰣 ‎(saqïn-)

References

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