يوقاذماق

Karakhanid

Etymology

Inherited from Common Turkic *yōkad- (“to perish”). Related to يوق (yōq, “there isn't”).

Verb

يُوقاذْماقْ (yōqāδmāq) (third-person singular aorist يُوقاذُورْ (yōqāδūr))

1. (intransitive) to perish

   يَلِنكُقْ اُغْلٖى يُوقاذُورْ اَذْكُو اَتٖى قَلٖيرْ ― Yalïŋuq oğlï̄ yōqāδūr eδgǖ ātï̄ qalï̄r. ― The children of the men perish but their good name remains.

Descendants

• Uzbek: yoʻqotmoq (“to lose”)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yo:ka:ḏ-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 900

Further reading

• al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume III, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 384