𐰖𐰞𐰭𐰆𐰽

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yalŋuz. Compare Turkish yalnız, Uzbek yolgʻiz, Kyrgyz жалгыз (jalgız), Tuvan чаңгыс (çañgıs).

Adjective

𐰖𐰞𐰭𐰆𐰽 (yalŋus)

1. alone, solitary
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 40

     𐱃𐰞𐰢⁚𐰆𐰺𐰃⁚𐰖𐰺𐰣𐰲𐰀⁚𐰖𐰽𐰃𐰲𐰃𐰤⁚𐰖𐰞𐰢⁚𐰴𐰖𐰍⁚𐰖𐰺𐰀⁚𐰆𐰺𐰆𐰰𐰣⁚𐰖𐰞𐰭𐰆𐰽𐰆𐰣⁚𐰖𐰆𐰺𐰃𐰖𐰆𐰺⁚𐱅𐰃𐰼

     talïm:urï:yarïn(:)ača:yasïčin:yalïm:qayaɣ:yara:urupan:yalŋusun:yurïyor:tér

     A bold youth marches alone, opening (his) shoulder, striking and splitting the bare rock with a broad arrow-head, it says.

References

• Tekin, Talât (1993) “y(a)lŋus”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 68a
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yalŋu:s”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 930a
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jạlɨŋ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill