𐰖𐰞𐰍𐰀

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yālga- (“to lick”). Cognate with Chuvash ҫула (śula), Khalaj yalğamaq, Turkish yalamak, Uzbek yalamoq, Bashkir ялау (yalaw), Yakut салаа (salaa), Tuvan чылгаар (çılgaar). Compare also Mongolian долоох (doloox, “to lick”).

Verb

𐰖𐰞𐰍𐰀 (yalɣa-)

1. (transitive) to lick
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 13

     𐰖𐰍𐰞𐰍:𐰴𐰢𐰃𐰲:𐰉𐰆𐰞𐰆𐰯𐰣:𐰖𐰞𐰍𐰖𐰆:𐱅𐰃𐰼𐰃𐰠𐰢𐰃𐰾:𐰇𐰠𐰇𐰢𐰓𐰀:𐰆𐰔𐰢𐰃𐰾:𐱅𐰃𐰼

     yaɣlïɣ:qamïč:bulupan:yalɣayu:tirilmiš:ölümde:ozmïš:tér

     She kept herself alive by licking a greasy ladle (and thus) she escaped death, it says.

References

• Tekin, Talât (1993) “y(a)lg(a)-”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 68
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yalğa:-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 926
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jālga-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill