Old Turkic

Letter

𐰲 ‎(č)

1. A letter of the Old Turkic runic script, representing /č/.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Turkic *ač- ‎(“to open”). Compare Turkish aç- ‎(“to open”).

Verb

𐰲 ‎(ač-)

1. to open

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 18
• Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*ač-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill