𐰚𐰦𐰇

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kẹntü (“self”). Cognate with Turkish kendi (“self”), Yakut кини (kini, “third person singular pronoun”).

Pronoun

𐰚𐰦𐰇 (kentü)

1. self

   Synonym: 𐰇𐰔 (öz)

   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 66

     𐰨𐰯:𐰞𐰴𐰆:𐰚𐰤𐱅𐰇:𐰇𐰠𐰇𐰏𐰃:𐰼𐰚𐰠𐰃𐰏:𐰆𐰞

     ančïp:alqu:kentü:ülügi:erklig:ol

     Thus, everyone is master of their own fate.

Alternative forms

• 𐰚𐰤𐱅𐰇 (kentü) (Irq Bitig)

References

• Tekin, Talât (1968) “käntü”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 350
• Tekin, Talât (1993) “k(ä)ntü”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 58
• Abuseitova, M. Kh, Bukhatuly, B., editors (2008), “𐰚𐰤𐱅𐰇”, in TÜRIK BITIG, Language Committee of Ministry of Culture and Information of Republic of Kazakhstan
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kentü:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 728
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*gẹntü (-nd-)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill