Editing Göktürks (section)

===Origin===
[[File:Turanid looking Western Gokturk–Ak-Hun Turkic men, Miho Museum.jpg|thumb|A funerary depiction of long haired Türks in the Kazakh steppe. [[Miho funerary couch]], circa 570.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mierse |first1=William E. |title=Artifacts from the Ancient Silk Road |date=1 December 2022 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-4408-5829-1 |page=126 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WQuXEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA126 |language=en}} "In the upper scene, long-haired Turkic servants attend an individual seated inside the yurt proper, and in the lower scene, hunters are seen riding down game. The setting must be the Kazakh steppes over which the Turks had taken control from the Hepthalites."
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As an [[ethnonym]], the etymology of ''Turk'' is still unknown.<ref>{{harvnb|Tasar|Frank|Eden|2021|pp=6–7}}</ref> It is generally believed that the name ''Türk'' may have come from Old Turkic migration-term<ref>(Bŭlgarska akademii︠a︡ na naukite. Otdelenie za ezikoznanie/ izkustvoznanie/ literatura, Linguistique balkanique, Vol. 27–28, 1984, p. 17</ref>{{Clarification needed|reason=What is a "migration-term"? This is not a common English term and seems to be a technical term.|date=April 2025}} {{Langx|otk|𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜|Türük/Törük|label=none}}, which means 'created, born'.<ref>Faruk Sümer, Oghuzes (Turkmens): History, Tribal organization, Sagas, Turkish World Research Foundation, 1992, p. 16)</ref>

As a word in Turkic languages, ''Turk'' may mean "strong, strength, ripe" or "flourishing, in full strength".<ref>{{harvnb|Tasar|Frank|Eden|2021|p=30}}</ref> It may also mean ripe as for a fruit or "in the prime of life, young, and vigorous" for a person.<ref>{{harvnb|Clauson|1972|pp=542–543}}</ref>

The name ''Gök-türk'' emerged from the misreading of the word ''Kök'', meaning [[Ashina tribe|''Ashina'']], the endonym of the ruling clan of the historical ethnic group which was attested in [[Old Turkic]] as {{langx|otk|𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜|Türük|label=none}}<ref name="KulteginMC">[http://irq.kaznpu.kz/?lang=e&mod=1&tid=1&oid=15&m=1 Kultegin's Memorial Complex, Türik Bitig] [[Orkhon inscriptions]]</ref><ref name="BilgeKaganMC">{{Cite web|url=https://kaznpu.kz/kz/|title=Абай атындағы Қазақ ұлттық педагогикалық университеті|website=kaznpu.kz}}</ref> {{langx|otk|𐰚𐰇𐰜:𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜|Kök Türük|label=none}},<ref name="KulteginMC" /><ref name="BilgeKaganMC" /> or {{langx|otk|𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰚|Türk|label=none}}.<ref name="TonyukukMC">[http://irq.kaznpu.kz/?lang=e&mod=1&tid=1&oid=17&m=1 Tonyukuk's Memorial Complex, Türik Bitig] [[Bain Tsokto inscriptions]]</ref> 

They were known in [[Middle Chinese]] historical sources as the ''Tūjué'' ({{zh|t=[[wikt:突|突]] [[wikt:厥|厥]]}}; reconstructed in Middle Chinese as *''dwət-kuɑt'' > ''tɦut-kyat'').{{sfn|Golden|2011|p=20}}

The ethnonym was also recorded in various other Middle Asian languages, such as [[Sogdian language|Sogdian]] *''Türkit ~ Türküt'', ''tr'wkt'', ''trwkt'', ''turkt'' > ''trwkc'', ''trukč''; [[Saka language|Khotanese Saka]] ''Ttūrka''/''Ttrūka'', [[Rouran language|Rouran]] ''to̤ro̤x''/''türǖg'', [[Korean language|Korean]] ''[[:ko:%EB%8F%8C%EA%B6%90|돌궐]]''/''Dolgwol'', and [[Old Tibetan]] ''Drugu''.{{sfn|Golden|2011|p=20}}{{sfn|Golden|2018|p=292}}