𐰖𐰆𐰺𐱃

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yūrt (“camping-site”). Cognate with Chuvash ҫурт (śurt), Khalaj yûrt, Turkish yurt, Uzbek yurt, Bashkir йорт (yort), Yakut сурт (surt). Compare also Russian ю́рта (júrta), a Turkic borrowing.

Noun

𐰖𐰆𐰺𐱃 (y¹ur¹t¹ /yurt/)

  1. camp, camping-site

References

  • Tekin, Talât (1968) “yurt”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 408
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yurt”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 958
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jūrt”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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