ʾʾyʾ

Old Uyghur

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *āya (“palm”). Cognate with Turkish aya.

Noun

ʾʾyʾ (aya)

1. (anatomy) palm
   • 11th century CE, Story of Prince Kalyanamkara and Papamkara, VI.8

     ʾʾmrʾx ʾwykwkwm syny ʾyncʾ sʾvʾr mn ʾʾyʾdʾxy yyncw ii mwncwx tʾk

     amraq ögüküm séni ïnča sever men ayadaqï yinčü II mončuq teg

     My dear child, I love you like this; like two pearly beads in my palm.

Descendants

• Western Yugur: haya

References

• Hamilton, James (2020) Korkut, Ece, Birkan, İsmet, transl., Budacı İyi Kalpli ve Kötü Kalpli Prens Masalının Uygurcası - Prens Kalyāṇaṃkara ve Pāpaṃkara Hikâyesi (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları, →ISBN
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “aya:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 267