𐰃

𐰃 (i, é, ï)

1. A letter of the Old Turkic runic script, representing /i/ /é/ or /ï/. The backness or frontness depends on the type of the consonant.

From Proto-Turkic *ï (“bush, tree”). Cognate with Old Uyghur ՚y (ï, “plant”), Karakhanid يٖيكٖى‎ (yigi, “bushy”).

𐰃 (ï)

1. bush (singular or collective)
2. tree

• 𐰃𐰍𐰲‎ (ïɣač)

From Proto-Turkic *-ï. Cognate with Turkish -ı, -i (“3rd person possessive suffix”).

𐰃 (-ï or -i)

1. 3rd person possessive suffix.

• 𐰾𐰃‎ (-si)

• Clauson, Gerard (1972), “ı:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 1
• Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*ɨ, *ɨ-(ń)gač”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill