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𐱅𐰇𐰏𐰇𐰤𐰝

tügünük

Meaning:
smoke hole, venthole, opening

Clauson tentatively derives tügünük from tügün “knot”. Wilkens instead treats it as a reading variant of tüŋlük “window, smoke opening”. The etymology and its placement in the knot family remain uncertain.

Examples

Translations

German:
Rauchöffnung, Rauchloch, Öffnung, Fensterbogen
Russian:
дымовое отверстие
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
tüstü dəliyi
Turkish (Türkiye):
baca, ağız, duman deliği

Bibliography 6

  • Hendrik Boeschoten (2022) A dictionary of early middle Turkic
    pp. 359b–360a
  • Dr. Jens Wilkens (2021) Handwörterbuch des Altuigurischen | Eski Uygurcanın El Sözlüğü
    p. 769p. 773
  • Sergei Starostin, Anna Dybo, Oleg Mudrak (2003) Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages
    p. 1476
  • Gerard Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish
    p. 485a
  • M Räsänen, I Kecskeméti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen
    p. 505a
  • Zsuzsa Kakuk (1962) Un vocabulaire salar
    p. 193