Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/tïgïŕ
Proto-Turkic
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Turkic *tïg- (“to blunt”) + *-ïŕ. Oghuz and Kipchak point the stem Proto-Turkic *tïk- (“to stuff”), whence *tïkïz. *tïgïz would be *tïgïz in Oghuz and *tïwïz in Kipchak.
Adjective
edit*tïgïŕ
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- ⇒ Proto-Turkic: *tïgrak
References
edit- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 471
- Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 477
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Tɨgra- / *Tɨgɨŕ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill