اذكو
Karakhanid
editEtymology
editInherited from Proto-Turkic *edgü (“good”). Possibly related to ااذ (ēδ, “manufactured thing”).
Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰓𐰏𐰇 (edgü), Chuvash ырӑ (yră), Turkish iyi, Bashkir эйе (eye), иге (ige) and Yakut үтүө (ütüö).
Adjective
editاَذْكُو (eδgǖ)
- good
- قُشْنٖى قُنُمْ اَغِشْقا
قِلْغِلْ اَنْكَرْ اَغِرْلِقْ
اَرْتُتْ اَلِبْ اَنُنْغِلْ
اَذْكُو تَڤَرْ اُغُرْلُقْ- Qošnï̄ qonum ağïšqā,
Qïlğïl aŋar ağïrlïq,
Artut alïp anunğïl,
Eδgǖ tavar oğurluq. - (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- Qošnï̄ qonum ağïšqā,
References
edit- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “edgü:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 52
Further reading
edit- 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 I, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, pages 114-115