uç- basically (of a bird) ‘to fly’, with various metaph. extensions. The oldest is, as an honorific (of a superior), ‘to die’; others are ‘to go with great speed; to disappear; to twitch; (of colours) to fade’, and, at any rate in recent Osm., ‘to be dissolute’. C.i.a.p.a.l. Türkü viii Kül Tegin . . . uçdı: ‘Kül Tegin . . . died’ I NE; eçim xağan uça: bardı ‘my (paternal) uncle, the xağan, died’ II E 20; a.o.o. of uça: bar-: viii ff. (the young bird) uça: azdı: ‘lost its way in flight’ IrkB 15; uça: uma:tın ‘because it could not fly’ 61: Uyğ. viii kapım xağan uçdı: ‘my father, the xağan, died’ Şu. N 12; viii ff. Bud. uçuğma tınlığlarığ ‘flying creatures’ TT IV 8, 57: Civ. kök kalıkda uçar kuş ‘birds flying in the sky’ TT I 23; kuğu kuş uçtı ‘the swan has flown away’ ditto 215; bu yılda ağa uçup ‘as my elder brother died this year’ USp. 22, 53-4 (post-xiii): Xak. xi kuş uçdı: ‘the bird flew’ (ṭāra); anıŋ kutı: uçdı: ‘his luck deserted him’ (ḏahaba); er attın kodı: uçdı: ‘the man fell’ (saqaṭa) ‘off the horse’ . . . er tını: uçdı: inqaṭa‘a nafsu’l-racul ‘the man’s breath failed’ Kaş. I 163 (uça:r, uçma:k; two phr. not quoted here belong to öç-, q.v., the last, however, seems to belong here); and four o.o.: KB uç- (of birds) ‘to fly’ 23, 74, etc.; tiriglik uçar ‘life is fleeting’ 231; (if a stool collapses) uçar ol er ‘the man on it falls off’ 803: xiii(?) Tef. uçar kuşlar 334; At. uçğan yügürgen neŋ-e ‘beings that fly or walk’ 6; a.o.o.: xiv Muh. ṭāra u:ç- (sic) Mel. 28, 12; Rif. 111; al-ṭīrān uçmak 36, 12; 122: Çağ. xv ff. uç- (-mak, etc.) connotes movement, e.g. (of the eye) ‘to twitch’, (of the heart) ‘to flutter’, (of a bird) ‘to fly’, (of sleep) ‘to desert one’ Vel. 94-6 (quotns.); uç- (‘with -ç-’) (1) ṭīrān wa parīdan ‘to fly’; (2) ixtilāc ‘to quiver, twitch’; (3) maḥw wa ma‘dūm şudan ‘to perish’ San. 62v. 19 (quotns.): Xwar. xiv uç- ‘to fly away’ Qutb 194, MN 351: Kom. xiv ‘to fly’ uç- CCI, CCG; Gr.: Kıp. xiii ṭāra uç- (cim) Hou. 41, 20: xiv ditto İd. 8, Bul. 60r.: xv ditto Tuh. 24a. 3; uş- ṭāra Kav. 9, 9; 78, 8: Osm. xiv ff. uç- (xv, once uş-) is noted in metaph. meanings in TTS I 710; II 934; III 696.