𐰺𐰀

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Common Turkic *āra (“among, between”). Cognate with Turkish ara.

Postposition

𐰺𐰀 (ara)

1. among, between
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 10

     𐰴𐰢𐰆𐰽:𐰀𐰺𐰀:𐰉𐰽𐰢

     qamuš:āra:bašïm

     Among the reeds is my head.

Alternative forms

• 𐰀𐰺𐰀 (āra) (Irk Bitig)

References

• Tekin, Talât (1968) “ara”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 303
• Tekin, Talât (1993) “ara”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 48
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ara:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 196
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*(i)āra”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill