𐰉𐰆𐰖𐰢𐰆𐰞
boymul
Meaning:
an animal with a white marking on its neck
boymul is probably derived from boyun “neck”, through a formation such as *boynul, with subsequent nasal labialization. Although the early meaning specifically refers to a white neck marking, some later Anatolian dialects also use the word for animals with a contrasting black neck.
Examples
Translations
German:
Tier mit weißer Zeichnung am Hals
Russian:
животное с белой отметиной на шее
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
boynunda ağ ləkəsi olan heyvan
Turkish (Türkiye):
boynunda beyaz leke bulunan hayvan
Bibliography 3
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Dr. Jens Wilkens (2021) Handwörterbuch des Altuigurischen | Eski Uygurcanın El Sözlüğüp. 190b, boymulp. 190b, boymul
boymul (r) Tier, das eine weiße Färbung am Hals hat || boynunda beyaz renk olan hayvan -
Marcel Erdal (2004) A Grammar of Old Turkicp. 117, §2.408, paragraph on nasal labializationp. 117, §2.408, paragraph on nasal labialization
In some words in some varieties of Old Turkic, /n ŋ/ become /m/ beside rounded vowels: Hamilton 1977 discusses a.o. kömül < köŋül ‘heart’. OTWF 99 and 104 document the lexemes boymul < boyun+ and kömüldürük < köŋül+ (which is also the source of Turkish gömlek ‘shirt’). Another instance is yürüm karak < yürüŋ karak ‘the white of the eye’ in Wordlist 40. -
Gerard Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkishp. 386a, buymulp. 386a, buymul
buymul originally ‘having a white neck’, but except in Kaş. consistently used as the name of a bird. Survives only(?) in SW Osm. buymul ‘the hen-harrier, Circus cyaneus, or marsh harrier, Circus aeruginosus’ (Red. 413). The Çağ. word küykenek/kükenek, with which San. identifies this bird, is a l.-w. fr. Mong. küykenek, which E. D. Ross in A Polyglot List of Birds in Turki, Manchu and Chinese, Calcutta, 1909, No. 64 kökenek (sic) tentatively identifies with ‘the kestrel, Cerchneis tinnunculus’. Türkü viii ff. kök buymu:l toğan kuş men ‘I am a grey falcon with a white neck’(?) IrkB 64: Xak. xi buymul at ‘a horse which has white on its neck’ (fī ‘unuqihi bayāḍ); also used of sheep, etc. Kaş. III 176: Osm. xvi ff. buymul occurs in several texts, mainly dicts., usually as a bird name, but in one with Kaş.’s meaning of a goat TTS II 164 (boymul); IV 122 (ditto): muymul xvi ff. in dicts., translating words meaning ‘kestrel’ and ‘sparrow-hawk’ II 700: xviii muymul (spelt) in Rūmī is küykenek, that is a bird like a sparrow-hawk (bāşa), ki dum-i ū-rā ba-dum-i bāşa ṭabṭ mī-kunand ‘whose tail they fix like the tail of a sparrow-hawk(?)’ San. 32m 8; o.o. 307v. 25 (kükenek, same translation); 311r. 10 (küykenek, ditto).
