𐰽𐰃𐰍𐰆𐰣

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *sïgun (“elk, moose”). Cognate with Turkish sığın (“moose”), Uzbek suygun, Southern Altai суун (suun), Tuvan сыын (sıın, “maral”).

Noun

𐰽𐰃𐰍𐰆𐰣 (sïɣun)

1. a kind of male deer; moose, elk, maral

   Synonym: 𐰚𐰃𐰘𐰃𐰚 (kéyik)

   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 60

     𐱃𐰆𐰸𐰆𐰔:𐰺𐰞𐰃:𐰽𐰃𐰍𐰆𐰣:𐰚𐰃𐰘𐰃𐰚:𐰢𐰤

     toquz:aralï:sïɣun:kéyik:men

     I am a male maral deer with a nine-branched horn.

References

• Tekin, Talât (1968) “siγun”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 368
• Tekin, Talât (1993) “sıgun”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 62
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “sı:ğun”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 811
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*sɨg-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill