𐰛𐰈𐰤𐰾

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *küneĺ (“sun, sunny place”). Cognate with 𐰚𐰇𐰤‎ (kün, “sun, day”), Chuvash хӗвел (hĕvel, “sun”), Turkish güneş (“sun, sunlight, sunny place”), Uzbek quyosh, Bashkir ҡояш (qoyaş), Yakut куйаас (kuyaas).

Noun

𐰛𐰈𐰤𐰾 (küneš)

sunshine, sunlight
- 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 57
  ‏𐰚𐰇𐰤𐰾𐰚𐰀:𐰆𐰞𐰆𐰺𐰆𐰺:𐰆𐰞‎
  küneške:olurur:ol
  It remains in the sunshine.
sunny place

Related terms

𐰚𐰇𐰤‎ (kün, “sun, day”)

References

Tekin, Talât (1993), “kün(ä)ş”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 59
Clauson, Gerard (1972), “küneş”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 734
Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*güneĺ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

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