𐰋𐰃𐱁

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bẹ̄ĺ (“five”). Cognate with Chuvash пиллӗк (pillĕk, “five”), Karakhanid بٖيشْ (bḗš, “five”) Azerbaijani beş (“five”), Turkish beş (“five”), Gagauz beş (“five”), Uzbek besh, Bashkir биш (biş), Yakut биэс (bies, “five”).

𐰋𐰃𐱁 (b²iš /béš/)

1. five

• 𐰋𐱁 (beš) (Orkhon Turkic)
• 𐰋𐰃𐰾 (bis) (Orkhon Turkic)
• 𐰌𐰂𐱀 (béš) (Yenisei Kyrgyz)

• Tekin, Talât (1968) “biš”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 316
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “bé:ş”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 376