𐰴𐰆𐰞-

kol-

Meaning:
ask for; request; implore
Details:

kol- means “to ask for, request, seek” and, in more urgent or religious contexts, “to implore, beg”. The requested thing normally functions as the direct object, while the person or source from whom it is requested may be expressed in the ablative. Uses such as kut kol- “implore grace, good fortune or salvation” are contextual developments of the same meaning.

The verb survives in the Lutsk and Trakai varieties of Karaim as kol- (קול) “to ask, request”. Räsänen (1969) also records Western Yugur kol- “to ask, beg”, but its present-day status is uncertain.

Clauson (1972) tentatively proposed a secondary stem kolt- because derivatives such as koltgučı “beggar” contain a t. Erdal (2004, p. 114) instead explains it as a parasitic t inserted between l and the following velar consonant.

In modern languages

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Language Cognate
Turkmen -
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Salar -
Gagauz -
Crimean -
Uyghur -
Uzbek -
Kazakh -
Nogai -
Siberian Tatar -
Kyrgyz -
Altai -
Alan -
Kumyk -
Tatar -
Bashkir -
Tıva -
Khakas -
Sakha (Yakut, Dolgan) -
Khalaj -
Chuvash -

Examples

Irıq Bitig
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Translations

German:
erbitten; erflehen
Russian:
просить; испрашивать
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
diləmək; istəmək
Turkish (Türkiye):
dilemek; istemek
  • Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish p. 616-617
    kol- ‘to ask for (something Acc.)’; there are possible traces of an alternative form kolt-, see kolğu:çı:, but prob. only as a Sec. f. Survives only(?) in NW Kar. L., T. R II 584. Türkü viii ff. (a man met a god and) kut kolmı:ş ‘asked for his favour’ IrkB 47; Man. suyumuznı yazukumuznı boşunu kolmak kergek erti ‘it was necessary to pray to be freed from our sins (Hend.)’ Chuas. 263-5; a.o. do. 288 (a similar phr. in 279-80 has ötünmek for kolmak); krmşuxn koltı ‘he asked for pardon (Sogdian l.-w.)’ TT II 8, 36; a.o. M III 22, 3-5 (ii) (étiglig): Uyğ. viii ff. Man.-A tegzinti buşı koltı ‘he walked about asking for alms’ M I 32, 12: Man. kut kolurbiz TT III 172-3; M II 10, 4; kıv kolurbiz same meaning do. 10, 6: Bud. adın ağılık koltı ‘he asked for another (gift of) treasure’ PP 7, 4; kut koltı do. 51, 2; o.o. do. 48, 4; 64, 5; U I 31, 4 etc.; Xak. xi ol mendin ne:ŋ koldı: ‘he asked me (sa’ala minnī) for the thing’ Kaş. II 25 (kolu:r, kolma:k); o.o. I 224 (ümlüg); 274, 17: KB boldı kolmış kamuğ ‘all that He wished came into existence’ 4; séni koldı rabbıdın adın kolmadı ‘he asked God for you and nothing else’ 38; töşek koldı yattı ‘he called for his bed and lay down’ 5673, 6212; o.o. 39 (emgek), 432 (erej), 4421 (alış), etc.: xiii(?) At. (if he is given two armfuls (see ko:l) of money) üç kol kolur ‘he asks for three’ 312; Tef. kol- ‘to ask for’ 212; xiv Rbğ. ditto R II 585 (quotns.): Çağ. xv ff. kol- (-mak) dile- ‘to ask for (permission, or a girl in marriage)’ Vel. 342 (quotns.); kol- xwāstan wa ṭalab kardan ‘to ask for, request’; the narrower meaning given by the Rūmī author (i.e. Vel.) is erroneous; it means ‘to ask for’ other things as well San. 288v. 23 (quotns.): Xwar. xiv ditto Nahc. 11, 4; 321, 12; 385, 12: Kom. xiv ditto CCI, CCG; Gr.: Kıp. xv ṣallā ‘to pray’ kol- . . .; the word means both ‘to pray’ (al-ṣalāt) and ‘to ask for’ (al-du‘ā) Kav. 78, 5; o.o. do. 10, 5; 12, 13 (everywhere vocalized kıl-, apparently owing to confusion with the syn. phr. namāz kıl-).