Clauson (1972)
An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish
p. 736
kör-
(g-) basically ‘to see (something Acc.)’ with several extended meanings like ‘to experience (something Acc.); to look to, i.e. obey (someone Dat.); to see to it that (you do something, Ger. in -u:/-ü:)’. C.i.a.p.a.l.; NW Kumyk; SW Osm., Tkm. gör-. There is obviously a very old etymological connection with 1 kö:z ‘eye’, cf. semiz and semri:-. Türkü viii körü:r közim körmez teg . . . boltı: ‘my seeing eye became sightless’ I N 10—I E 19, II E 16 (1 emgek)—kop maŋa: körti: ‘everyone looked to, i.e. obeyed, me’ I E 30, II E 24 (and see körğü:)—(the Xağan said) yelü: kör ‘see to it that you ride fast’ T 26—several o.o.: viii ff. tağ üze: yul suv körü:pen yış üze: yaş ot körü:pen ‘seeing springs and water on the mountains and fresh vegetation in the mountain forests’ IrkB 17; éşi:dmi:şte: körü: körmüş yeg ‘it is better to see with your own eyes than to hear’ Tun. IIIa. 3-4 (ETY II 94): Man. körti (mis-transcribed kirti) ‘saw’ M I 6, 2; közin körüp Chuas. 312—(if I have accepted the advice of evil companions and) köŋülin körüp ‘looked to, i.e. followed, their thoughts’ do. 199; a.o.o.: Uyğ. viii kör tedim ‘I said “see” (or ‘obey me’ ?)’ Şu. E 11; a.o. X 3; Suci 8 (atı:): viii ff. Man.-A körelim ‘let us see’ (your perfect being) M I 11, 17; o.o. do. 9, 6; 9, 7: Man. TT IX 14, etc. (tuğıl); a.o.o.: Bud. kör- ‘to see’ is very common, e.g. körür erdi ‘he saw’ (the farmers outside the city) PP 1, 3: Civ. kör- occurs for ‘to see’, e.g. kayu kişi keçe edgü körmeser ‘if a man cannot see well at night’ H I 33, but in the omen texts normally means ‘to consult the omens’; there are various idioms; iğ ağrığ uğrunda körsersen ‘if you consult the omens about an illness’ TT I 16; ig tapa körsersen same meaning do. 77; yağmur yağıtğuka körser ‘if a man consults the omens about (the possibility of) making it rain’ TT VII 29, 1; tavar tegere (?read tegre) körser ‘if a man consults the omens about property’ do. 16: Xak. xi ol meni: kördi: ra’ānī ‘he saw me’; in a prov. yüzke: körme: ‘do not look at (lā tanẓur) a man’s face’ Kaş. II 8 (köre:r, körme:k); about 60 o.o.; two occurrences of Aor. körür; occasional spellings of kö:r- esp. in the Imperat.; translated ra’ā, baṣura (‘to see’), naẓara—as an Aux. V. kura: kördüm wattartu ‘I strung’ (my strong bow) III 219, 16: KB kör- ‘to see’ is common 248, etc.; the Imperat. kör is constantly used, almost meaninglessly, to supply a syllable in a verse which would otherwise lack one 38, etc.—as an Aux. V. özügke baka kör ‘look at yourself’ 239 a.o.o.: xiii(?) At. ditto; Tef. kör- ‘to see’; ayru turmakğa şawâb körmedi ‘he did not think it correct to stand apart’ 185: xiv Muh. baṣura ğö:r- Mel. 5, 5; Rif. 75; abṣara ‘to see’ gö:r- 21, 13; 102; al-naẓar gö:rmeg 13, 13; 35, 9; 89, 121: Çağ. xv ff. kör- (‘with k-’, -gen, etc.) gör- Vel. 364-6; kör- dīdan ‘to see’ San. 303v. 22 (quotns.): Xwar. xiii ditto ‘Ali 28, 30: xiii(?) kör- ‘to see’ is common in Oğ. esp. in the (non-Turkish) phr. kördi kim ‘he saw that’ 32, 36, 41, etc.—(Oğuz Xağan) yaxşı kördi ‘approved of’ (the young man’s statement) 198; a.o. 329: xiv kör- ‘to see’ (common) Qutb 102; MN 41, etc.: Kom. xiv ‘to see (common); to experience’ kör- CCI, CCG; Gr. 153 (quotns.): Kıp. xiii baṣura kör- Hou. 33, 14: xiv kör- abṣara İd. 80; kören al-mubṣir, originally körgen do. 79; abṣara wa ar’ā (?read ra’ā) kör- Bul. 25r.: xv naẓara wa ra’ā kör- Kav. 9, 19; Tuh. 43b. 1, etc. (not translated).