𐱅𐰇𐰏

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tüg- (“to tie, knot”). Cognate with Turkish düğmek, Uzbek tugmoq, Bashkir төйөу (töyöw), Tuvan дүйер (düyer).

Verb

𐱅𐰇𐰏 (tüg-)

1. (transitive) to tie, knot
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 50:

     𐱃𐰃𐰍:𐱃:𐰴𐰆𐰑𐰺𐰆𐰸𐰃𐰣:𐱅𐰇𐰏𐰇𐰯:𐱅𐰃𐰏𐰼𐱅:𐰖𐰔𐰍:𐰴𐰆𐰑𐰃:𐰖𐰑𐰺𐱃

     tïɣ:at:qudruqïn:tügüp:tigret:yazïɣ:qodï:yadrat

     Tie up the roan horse's tail into a knot and make it run until it breaks wind; make the bay (horse) run until it (almost) spreads down (on the ground)

References

• Tekin, Talât (1993) “tüg-”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 65
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “tüg-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 477
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*düg-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill