یوند

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• یونت (yunt)

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yunt (“horse, mare”). Cognate with Karakhanid يُنْدْ (yund, “horse”), Chagatai یونت (yunt, “horse”) and Old Turkic 𐰖𐰆𐰣𐱃 (yunt, “mare”).

Noun

یوند • (yund)

1. wild and unbroken brood mare

   Synonyms: (mare) حجر (hicir), قیصراق (kısrak), مادیان (madiyan)

Derived terms

• یوند قوشی (yund kuşu, “wagtail”)

Descendants

• Turkish: yont (dialectal)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yont”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5358
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یوند”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1369
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Equa”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 472
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یوند”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 5639
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یوند”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2221