𐰃𐰤

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *īn (“lair”). Cognate with Turkish in (“lair”), Turkmen hīn (“lair”), Uzbek in, Kazakh ін (ın), Yakut иин (iin).

𐰃𐰤 (in)

1. lair, den

   Synonym: 𐰆𐰖𐰀‎ (uya)

   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 8

     ‏𐰞𐱃𐰆𐰣:𐰴𐰆𐰺𐰆𐰍𐰽𐰴𐰢𐰃𐰤:𐰴𐰃𐰞𐰲𐰃𐰣:𐰚𐰾𐰃𐰯𐰤:𐰇𐰔𐰇𐰢:𐰖𐰆𐰞:𐰃𐰤𐱅𐰃𐰤:𐰉𐰽𐰢𐰃𐰣:𐰖𐰆𐰞:𐰋𐰃𐰤𐱅𐰤:𐱅𐰃𐰼‎

     altun:quruɣsaqïmïn:qïlïčïn:kesipen:özüm:yul:intin:bašïmïn:yul:ebintin:tér

     Cutting my golden stomach with a sword, pluck my self out of its lair and pluck my head out of its house, it says.

• Tekin, Talât (1993), “in”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 55
• Clauson, Gerard (1972), “i:n”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 166
• Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*ījn”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill