𐰉

Derived from Sogdian 𐼃 (β, “beth”), ultimately from Classical Syriac ܒ (“beth”).

𐰉 (b¹)

1. A letter of the Old Turkic runic script, representing /b/ and /v/, used with back vowels.

• Tekin, Talât (1968) A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 27
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “b¹/v¹”, in The Origin of Turkic Runic Alphabet, London, pages 68 and 74

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *āb (“hunt, chase”). Cognate with Azerbaijani ov (“hunt”), Turkish av (“hunt, hunting”), Turkmen āw (“hunt”), Uzbek ov, Bashkir ау (aw). Compare also Mongolian ав (av), Manchu ᠠᠪᠠ (aba).

𐰉 (ab)

1. hunt, hunting expedition, prey

• 𐰉𐰞𐰀 (abla-, “to hunt”)

• Tekin, Talât (1968) “ab”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 299
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “a:v”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 3
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Āb”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill