Karakhanid edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Common Turkic *yōd- (to destroy). Related to يُوقْ (yōq, there isn't).

Cognate with Turkmen ýoýmak, Kazakh жойу (joiu) and Tuvan чодар (çodar).

Verb edit

يُوذْماقْ (yōδmāq) (third-person singular aorist يُوذارْ (yōδār))

  1. (transitive) to wipe, erase
    اُلْ تُبْراقْ يُوزِنْدِنْ يُوذْتٖىOl toprāq yǖzindin yōδtï̄.He wiped the dust off his face.
  2. (transitive) destroy, obliterate, ruin
    اُلْ بِتِكْ يُوذْتٖىOl bitig yōδtï̄.He obliterated the writing.

Derived terms edit

References edit

  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yo:ḏ-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 885

Further reading edit