𐰘𐰃𐰼

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yẹr. Compare Turkish yer, Uzbek yer, Kyrgyz жер (jer), Tuvan чер (çer).

𐰘𐰃𐰼 (y²ir² /yér/)

1. ground, earth, land, place
   • 8th century CE, Kultegin Inscription, S4

     𐰃𐰠⁚𐱃𐰆𐱃𐰽𐰴⁚𐰘𐰃𐰼⁚𐰇𐱅𐰜𐰤⁚𐰘𐰃𐱁⁚𐰼𐰢𐱁

     il²:t¹ut¹s¹q:y²ir²:üt²k̥n²:y²iš:r²mš

     /il:tutsaq:yér:ötüken:yiš:ermiš/

     The place from which the country could be controlled was the Ötüken mountain.

• 𐰘𐰼 (y²r²)

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yé:r”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 954a
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jẹr”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill