𐱅𐰇𐰤

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tǖn (“night”). Cognate with Turkish dün (“yesterday”), Uzbek tun, Bashkir төн (tön), Uzbek tun, Tuvan дүн (dün).

Noun

𐱅𐰇𐰤 (tün)

  1. night
    Antonym: 𐰚𐰇𐰤𐱅𐰔 (kün²t²z /⁠küntüz⁠/)
    • 8th century CE, Kültegin Inscription, E27
      𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜:𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰣:𐰇𐰲𐰇𐰤:𐱅𐰇𐰤:𐰆𐰑𐰢𐰑𐰢:𐰚𐰇𐰤𐱅𐰔:𐰆𐰞𐰺𐰢𐰑𐰢
      türük:bodun:üčün:tün:udïmadïm:küntüz:olurmadïm
      ...for the sake of the Turkic people, I did not sleep by night and I did not relax by day.

Derived terms

  • 𐱅𐰇𐰤:𐰆𐰺𐱃𐰆 (tün ortu, “midnight”)

References

  • Tekin, Talât (1968) “tün”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 387
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “tün”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 513
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*tün”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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