𐰖𐰍𐰴
Old Turkic
editEtymology
editInherited from Proto-Turkic *yaŋgak (“walnut”). Cognate with Khalaj yağâq, Turkish yangak, Uzbek yongʻoq, Kazakh жаңғақ (jañğaq). Compare also Hungarian dió, a Turkic borrowing.
Noun
edit𐰖𐰍𐰴 (yaɣaq)
- nut
- 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 64
- 𐰖𐰍𐰴𐰞𐰍:𐱃𐰆𐰍𐰺𐰴:𐰇𐰔𐰀:𐱅𐰇𐰾𐰇𐰯𐰤:𐰖𐰖𐰞𐰖𐰆𐰺:𐰢𐰤:𐱅𐰃𐰼
- yaɣaqlïɣ:toɣraq:üze:tüšüpen:yaylayur:men:tér
- Settling down on a poplar full of nuts, I spend the summer, it says.
- 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 64
References
edit- Tekin, Talât (1993) “y(a)g(a)k”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 64
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yağa:k”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 900
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jAŋgak”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill