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Old Turkic
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kulkak (“ear”). Cognate with Chuvash хӑлха (hălh̬a), Khalaj qulaq, Karakhanid قُلْقاقْ (qulqaq), قُلْخاقْ (qulχaq, “ear”), Old Uyghur (qulqaq, “ear”), Turkish kulak (“ear”), Uzbek quloq, Bashkir ҡолаҡ (qolaq), Yakut кулгаах (kulgaaq, “ear”). Compare also Mongolian хулхи (xulxi).
Noun
𐰸𐰆𐰞𐰴𐰴 (qulqaq)
- (anatomy) ear
- 8th century CE, Bilge Khagan Inscription, N11
𐰚𐰇𐰕𐰤:𐰚𐰇𐰼𐰢𐰓𐰜:𐰸𐰆𐰞𐰴𐰴𐰣:𐰾𐰓𐰢𐰓𐰜:𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰣𐰢𐰣- közün:körmedük:qulqaqïn:ešidmedük:bodunumun
- ...my people who have not been seen by eye and have not been heard by ear...
References
- Tekin, Talât (1968) “qulqaq”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 347
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kulkak”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 621
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kul-kak”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill