𐰉𐰆𐰞

Old Turkic

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bōl- (“to become”). Cognate with Chuvash пулма (pulma), Karakhanid [script needed] (bolmāq), Turkmen bōlmak, Uyghur بولماق (bolmaq), Uzbek boʻlmoq, Bashkir булыу (bulıw), Kazakh болу (bolu), Khakas поларға (polarğa), Kyrgyz болуу (boluu), Southern Altai болор (bolor), Tuvan болур (bolur), Yakut буол (buol). Possibly cognate with Azerbaijani olmaq, Turkish olmak, Crimean Tatar olmaq.

Verb

𐰉𐰆𐰞 (bol-)

1. to become, to happen

   Synonym: 𐰼 (er-)

   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 27

     𐰾𐰤:𐱅𐰇𐰜𐰠:𐰉𐰆𐰞𐰢𐰢𐰃𐰾:𐱅𐰃𐰼

     esen:tükel:bolmïš:tér

     (Thus, the sheep) became safe and sound, it says.

Derived terms

• 𐰉𐰆𐰞𐰆𐰍 (boluɣ, “existence”)

References

• Tekin, Talât (1968) “bol-”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 318
• Tekin, Talât (1993) “bol-”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 52
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “bol-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 331
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bōl-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bul- (“to find”). Cognate with Khalaj bulmaq, Azerbaijani bulmaq, Turkish bulmak, Yakut бул (bul).

Verb

𐰉𐰆𐰞 (bul-)

1. (transitive) to find, to attain
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 24

     𐰚𐰇𐰤:𐰆𐰺𐱃𐰆:𐰘𐰇𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰆𐰯:𐱅𐰇𐰤:𐰆𐰺𐱃𐰆:𐰴𐰣𐱃𐰀:𐰤𐰏𐰇𐰓𐰀:𐰉𐰆𐰞𐰍𐰖:𐰆𐰞:𐱃𐰃𐰼

     kün:ortu:yütürüp:tün:ortu:qanta:negüde:bulɣay:ol:tér

     After having lost it at noon, where and how would it find it at midnight?, it says.

Derived terms

• 𐰉𐰆𐰞𐰣 (bulun, “captive”)
• 𐰉𐰆𐰞𐰣𐰀 (bulna-, “to capture, to seize”)

References

• Tekin, Talât (1968) “bul-”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 321
• Tekin, Talât (1993) “bul-”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 53
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “bul-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 332
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bul-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[2], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill