“a bird”. Old Turkic root is “qut” (good fortune). A semantic field of the form “qut” insludes “qus” (a bird), qur (wood grouse), qïr+γi (hawk), quz+γïn (crow), qaz (goose), suη+qar (falcon), kez-qujruq (black kite) etc., also “qus” (a bird), qos (a pair), qïz (a girl), qïr+qïn (girls)”. A morpheme of these words is “two, a pair, two wings”. A birds image is in many Turlic monuments: on the crown of Kultegin, the Bilge kagan, on stone fences of Altyn Tamgan Tarhan, on stone barrow of Kuli-chur, etc. Forms qar, qïr in words qïr+an (eagle), qïr+γi (hawk), qar+γa (raven), qar+šïγa (goshawk), qar+lïγaš (swallow), qïr+γaul (pheasant), suη+qar (falcon) are connected with root “qut, qus”. |