Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/biti-
Proto-Turkic
Etymology
Derived from Middle Chinese 筆 (pit, “writing brush”)
Verb
*biti-
Derived terms
- *bitig (“inscription”)
Descendants
- → Proto-Mongolic: *bici-
- Proto-Common Turkic:
- Oghuz:
- Old Anatolian Turkish: بتمك (bitimek)
- Salar: piddigüsi
- Kipchak:
- Kipchak-Cuman:
- Mamluk-Kipchak: [Term?] (/biti-/)
- Kipchak-Cuman:
- Karluk:
- Siberian Turkic:
Further reading
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “biti:-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 299-300