𐱅𐰇𐰢𐰤

Old Turkic
Old Turkic cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : 𐱅𐰇𐰢𐰤‎ (tümen)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Chinese 萬 (MC mjonH, “myriad”) likely through Tocharian A tmāṃ. Compare also Japanese 万 (man), Korean 만 (man), Chinese borrowings and Mongolian түмэн (tümen), Manchu ᡨᡠᠮᡝᠨ (tumen), Turkic borrowings.

Numeral

𐱅𐰇𐰢𐰤 (tümen)

  1. myriad
    • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 32
      ‏𐰋𐰃𐰼:𐱃𐰉𐰞𐰴𐰆:𐰘𐰇𐰔:𐰉𐰆𐰞𐱃𐰃:𐰘𐰇𐰔:𐱃𐰉𐰞𐰴𐰆:𐰢𐰃𐰭:𐰉𐰆𐰞𐱃𐰃:𐰢𐰃𐰭:𐱃𐰉𐰞𐰴𐰆:𐱅𐰇𐰢𐰤:𐰉𐰆𐰞𐱃𐰃:𐱅𐰃𐰼‎
      bir:tabïlqu:yüz:boltï:yüz:tabïlqu:miŋ:boltï:miŋ:tabïlqu:tümen:boltï:tér
      One spriaea became a hundred; a hundred spiraeas became a thousand (and) a thousand spiraeas became ten thousand, it says.

References
  • Tekin, Talât (1968), “tümän”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 387
  • Tekin, Talât (1993), “tüm(ä)n”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 52
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972), “tümen”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 507
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