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/)

  1. a male slave, servant

Alternative forms

  • 𐰸𐰆𐰞 (qul)

Derived terms

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