On the Word “bošγutčï” in Old Uighur


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ARSLAN H. Ç.

Актуальные вопросы тюркологических исследований: Международные научные конференции XXXIII и XXXIV Кононовские чтения, ST. PETERSBURG, Rusya, 25 Ekim 2019, ss.28-36

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Basıldığı Şehir: ST. PETERSBURG
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Rusya
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.28-36
  • Çukurova Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

In this study, the word bošγutčï “teacher; student” which was seen in Old Uighur manuscripts and used in religious terminology is discussed. The base bošγut “educating, teaching, informing”, from which bošγutčï derives, comes from a hypothetical verb bošγu-, according to the researchers. The researchers came to this idea from the verbs bošγu-r- “to teach, to educate” and bošγu-n- “to learn, to study, to be educated” in Old Turkic. R. Rahmeti Arat went one step further and based bošγut on boš. Some researchers suppose the origin of the word *bošγu- in relation to the word bušï < Chinese 布施 bù shī. Kipchak word pošγut “laborer, casual worker” is the extension of the words bošγutčï in Old Uighur and bošγut “apprentice” in Karakhanid. The word is not encountered after the period of Kipchak. As a result, the structure and origin of the word bošγutčï has been re-explained through previous informations briefly here.