𐰴𐰆𐰞
Old Turkic
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Common Turkic *kul (“slave, servant”). Cognate with Turkish kul (“servant”), Uzbek qul, Bashkir ҡол (qol), Yakut кулут (kulut).
Noun
𐰴𐰆𐰞 (qul¹ /qul/)
Alternative forms
- 𐰸𐰆𐰞 (qul)
Derived terms
- 𐰸𐰆𐰞𐰑 (qulad-, “to become a slave”)
References
- Tekin, Talât (1968) “qul”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 347
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kul”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 615
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kul”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill