𐱅𐰃

From Proto-Turkic *dē- (“to say”). Cognate to Karakhanid [script needed] (tḗmēk, “to say”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (te-, “to say”), Kyrgyz дөө (döö, “to say”), Turkish demek (“to say”), Turkmen diýmek (“to say”), Yakut диэ (die, “to say”).

𐱅𐰃 (té-)

1. to say

• 𐱅𐰃𐰯‎ (tép)
• 𐱅𐰃𐰘𐰤‎ (téyin)

• 𐰾𐰇𐰕𐰠𐱁‎ (sözleš-, “to speak (to each other)”)

𐱅𐰃 (-ti)

1. Used to form adverbs from adjectives

From Proto-Turkic *-ti, compare Turkish -ti (“past tense suffix”).

𐱅𐰃 (-ti)

1. Used to form past tenses of verbs

• Clauson, Gerard (1972), “té:-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 433
• Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*dē-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill