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Old Turkic
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bẹ (“I”). Cognate with Chuvash эпӗ (ep̬ĕ, “I”), Khalaj mən (“I”), Turkish ben (“I”), Uzbek men (“I”), Bashkir мин (min, “I”), Yakut мин (min, “I”).
Pronoun
𐰋𐰤 (ben)
- first person singular pronoun
- 8th century CE, Tonyukuk Inscription, IW7
𐰋𐰠𐰏𐰾𐰃:𐰲𐰉𐰾𐰃:𐰋𐰤:𐰜:𐰼𐱅𐰢- bilgesi:čabïšï:ben:ök:ertim
- I, myself, was his advisor and commander.
Suffix
𐰋𐰤 (ben)
- Alternative spelling of 𐰢𐰤 (men)
Alternative forms
Declension
Declension of 𐰋𐰤
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singular
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| nominative
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𐰋𐰤 (ben)
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| accusative
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𐰋𐰃𐰤𐰃 (béni)
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| genitive
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𐰋𐰤𐰭 (beniŋ)
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| dative-locative
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𐰉𐰭𐰀 (baŋa)
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| locative-ablative
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𐰋𐰦𐰀 (bente)
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| ablative
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𐰋𐰦𐰤 (bentin)
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| allative
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𐰉𐰭𐰺𐰆 (baŋaru)
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| equative
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𐰋𐰨𐰀 (benče)
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| instrumental
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𐰋𐰤𐰃𐰤 (benin)
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See also
Old Turkic personal pronouns
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singular
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plural
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| 1st person
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𐰋𐰤 (ben), 𐰢𐰤 (men)
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𐰋𐰃𐰕 (biz)
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| 2nd person
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𐰾𐰤 (sen)
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𐰾𐰃𐰕 (siz)
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| 3rd person
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𐰆𐰞 (ol)
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References
- Tekin, Talât (1968) “bän”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 312
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ben”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 346
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bẹ-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill