𐰚𐰇𐰚

Old Turkic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *gȫk (“blue, green”). Compare Bashkir күк (kük, “blue, green, gray, sky”), Turkish gök (“sky”), Turkmen gȫk (“blue, green, sky”).

Adjective

𐰚𐰇𐰚 (kȫk)

  1. blue

Noun

𐰚𐰇𐰚 (kȫk)

  1. sky

Synonyms

References
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972), “a:k”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 708
  • Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*gȫk”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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