𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰣

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bodun (“people, nation”), possibly equivalent to 𐰉𐰆𐰑 (bod, “stature; tribe”) +‎ 𐰣 (-an, “plural suffix”).

Noun

𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰣 (bodun)

  1. (anthropology, sociology) people, nation

References

  • Tekin, Talât (1968) “bodun”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 317
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “boḏun”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 306
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bodun”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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