A GRAMMAR OF OLD TURKIC MARCEL ERDAL LEIDEN BRILL 2004

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according to DLT fols. 493 and 539 signifies ‘Take it!’ or ‘Here!’,
could be a contraction of muna (over *mna).
In MaitH XIII 4r15 muna is followed by an element (discussed in
section 3.341) spelled together with it: nä ymä ïn§
ï bo [...] oronluku
‘Why do you say “My throne is falling down”? Here it is; is this not
your throne?’ ï appears also in MaitH XI 7v13, XIII 7v13 etc..
oš oš is in the DLT said to be an exclamation used for calling cattle to
drink; this is clearly the same as the Common Turkic presentative
interjection of the same shape found in DLT fol.30 as oš mundag kïl
‘Do thus’. akar közüm oš tä (DLT fol.289) can be translated as
‘Look how my eyes are overflowing like the sea!’; the use in DLT
fol.332 is similar. oš became the first part of modern demonstrative
pronouns such as ošol and ušbu.
Exclamatory sentences can be introduced by interrogative-indefinite
pronouns such as nä ‘what’, ‘how many’ or demonstratives such as
‘so’, sometimes accompanied by ymä / mA; see part V.