’wyl

Old Uyghur

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ȫl (“wet”). Cognate with Ottoman Turkish [script needed] (öl), Yakut үөл (üöl).

Adjective

’wyl (öl)

1. wet, damp
   • 11th century CE, Story of Prince Kalyanamkara and Papamkara, I

     qwrwx yyryk swv’yw ’wyl yyryk t’ryyw xwş qwzxwn swq’r ywlyywr s’nsyz twym’n ’wyzlwk ’wylwrwr

     quruɣ yérig suvayu öl yérig tarıyu quš quzɣun suqar yulıyur sansïz tümen özlüg ölürür

     While watering the dry land and sowing the wet soil, the birds and the ravens peck and pull it out, (thus) they kill countless tens of thousands of living things.

References

• Hamilton, James (2020) Korkut, Ece, Birkan, İsmet, transl., Budacı İyi Kalpli ve Kötü Kalpli Prens Masalının Uygurcası - Prens Kalyāṇaṃkara ve Pāpaṃkara Hikâyesi (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları, →ISBN
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ö:l”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 124