Clauson (1972)
An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish
p. 651-652
kork-
‘to fear, be afraid of (someone or something)’; with the Object in the Dat. in the earliest period, and normally the Abl. later. C.i.a.p.a.l., occasionally as koruk-. Türkü viii neke: korkur biz ‘what are we afraid of?’ T 39; korkmadımız ‘we were not afraid’ T 41: viii ff. kişi: korkmuş korkma: temiş ‘the man was afraid; he said “do not be afraid”’ IrkB 2; a.o. do. 19: Man. korkmak ‘fear’ Chuas. 181; korkmatın ‘without fearing (God)’ do. 211; o.o. TT II 6, 32 (bez-); M I 6, 9 (beliğle:-): Uyğ. viii ff. Bud. nızvanılarka ertingü korkup ‘being very much afraid of the emotions’ (Sogdian l.-w.) U III 75, 6-7; ölüm adaka korksar ‘if (you) fear the danger of death’ PP 32, 4; a.o. do. 11, 1-2 (bodun); Suv. 5, 10, etc. (beliğle:-), etc., esp. in TT X: xiv Chin.-Uyğ. Dict. chü p’a ‘afraid’ (Giles 3,021 8,539) korkup eymenip Ligeti 168: Xak. xi kul teŋridin korkdı: ‘the slave (i.e. Moslem) feared (xāfa . . . min) God’ Kaş. III 421 (korkar, korkma:k; prov., verse); (the mouse born in a mill) kö:k kökrekiŋe: korkma:s ‘is not afraid of thunder’ III 282, 20; two o.o. (in all the Object is twice in the Dat. and twice in the Abl., the latter perhaps influenced by the Ar. idiom xāfa min): KB (if you look at the begs) korku tur kalı korkmasa sen küçün korkıtur ‘stand in fear of them; if you do not fear, they will frighten you by their strength’ 656; bu til yasıŋa korksa emdi özüŋ ‘if you yourself now fear the damage done by this tongue’ 983; o.o. (no Object) 773, 2288, 2299: xiii(?) Tef. kork- (once spelt ka:rk-) ‘to fear’ (202,) 214: xiv Rbğ. la‘natdın özi korkmadı ‘he did not himself fear the curse’ R II 563; Muh. xāfa ko:rk- Mel. 25, 11; Rif. 108; al-xawf korkmak 13, 12; 36, 5; 89, 122: Çağ. xv ff. kork- tarsīdan ‘to fear’ San. 285r. 6 (quotns.): Xwar. xiii(?) calap bulapdın korukmaz (sic) turur ‘he fears nothing and nobody’ Oğ. 307: xiv kork- ‘to fear’ Qutb 141; Nahc. 11, 10 (konlığ): Kom. xiv ‘to fear’ (with Abl.) kork- CCI, CCG; Gr. 200 (quotns.): Kıp. xiii xāfa mina’l-xawf kork- Hou. 39, 18: xiv kork- xāfa İd. 70: xv ditto Kav. 11, 5; 77, 12; ixtaşā (‘to be afraid’) wa xāfa körük- Tuh. 6a. 1; korukmak 14a. 6; xāfa koruk- 15a. 2; hāba ‘to dread’ koruk- 38a. 2: Osm. xiv ff. kork- (xiv sometimes korx-) c.i.a.p. TTS I 485; II 651.