𐰆𐰺𐱃𐰆

From Proto-Turkic *ortu (“middle”), from Proto-Turkic *or-. Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (ortu, “middle”), Turkish orta (“middle”), Yakut орто (orto, “middle”).

𐰆𐰺𐱃𐰆 (ortu)

1. middle, midpoint

• 𐰚𐰇𐰤 𐰆𐰺𐱃𐰆𐰾𐰃 (kün ortusï, “midday”)

• Clauson, Gerard (1972), “ortu:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 203&204
• Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*or-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill