Old Turkic edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ingek (cow). Cognate with Chuvash ӗне (ĕne), Turkish inek (cow), Uyghur ئىنەك (inek), Yakut ынах (ınaq). Compare also Mongolian үнээ (ünee), Hungarian ünő, Turkic borrowings.

Noun edit

𐰃𐰤𐰏𐰛 (ingek)

  1. cow
    • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 5
      𐰇𐰼𐰇𐰭:𐰾𐰼𐰃:𐰃𐰤𐰏𐰚:𐰉𐰆𐰔𐰀𐰍𐰆𐰞𐰲𐰃:𐰉𐰆𐰞𐰢𐰃𐰾
      ürüŋ:esri:ingek:buzaɣulačï:bolmïš
      A white-spotted cow was on the point of calving.

Related terms edit

References edit

  • Tekin, Talât (1968) “in(i)gäk”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 336
  • Tekin, Talât (1993) “ing(ä)k”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 55
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ingek”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 184
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*in-gek (/*ɨn-gak), *in-ken”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill