𐰋𐰃𐰼

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bīr (“one”). Cognate with Chuvash пӗр (pĕr), Khalaj bî, Turkish bir (“one, once”), Uzbek bir, Bashkir бер (ber, “one”), Yakut биир (biir).

𐰋𐰃𐰼 (b²ir² /bir/)

1. one

𐰋𐰃𐰼 (b²ir² /bir/)

1. once
   • 20th of September 735, 𐰖𐰆𐰞𐰞𐰃𐰍:𐱅𐰃𐰏𐰤 (Yollïġ Tégin), Bilge Ḳaġan Inscription N6:

     𐰋𐰃𐰼:𐱃𐰆𐰑𐰽𐰺:𐰀𐰲𐰾𐰴:𐰇𐰢𐰕𐰾𐰤

     b²ir²:t¹ud¹s¹r¹:ačs²q:ümzs²n²

     /Bir todsar ačsïḳ ömezsen./

     […] once you get full, you would not think of famishing again.

• Tekin, Talât (1968) “bir”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 314
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “bi:r”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 353
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bir (*bīr)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill