Inherited fromProto-Turkic*biŕ(“we”). Cognate withChuvashэпир(ep̬ir),Khalajbiz,Turkishbiz,Turkish-iz,Uzbekbiz,Bashkirбеҙ(beź),Yakutбиһиги(bihigi).

𐰋𐰃𐰕 (b²iz /biz/)

1. thefirst personpluralpronoun

𐰋𐰃𐰕 (b²iz /biz/)

1. Denotesfirst personplural after certain verb tenses.

   𐰴𐰡𐰲𐰃:𐰋𐰔 ―qltči:b²z /Ḳaltačïbiz./ ―We are going to stay.

2. Denotes "to be" forfirst personplural

   𐰕:𐰋𐰃𐰕 ―z:b²iz /Az biz./ ―We are few.

• Tekin, Talât (1968) “biz”, inA Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series;69), Bloomington: Indiana University,→ISBN,page316
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “biz”, inAn Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press,→ISBN,→OCLC,page388
• Starostin, Sergei,Dybo, Anna,Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bẹ-”, inEtymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

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