آیی

Khowar

Etymology

From Sanskrit अहि (áhi), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háǰʰiš (“snake, serpent”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ógʷʰis (“snake”). Cognate with Hindi अहि (ahi), Dutch hagedis.

Noun

آیی (ayí)

1. snake

References

• Elena Bashir, Maula Nigah, Rahmat Karim Baig (2022) “آیی”, in A digital Khowar-English dictionary with audio‎^[1], second edition, Chicago, I.L.: South Asia Language and Area Center, University of Chicago, archived from the original on 2023-01-19.

Ottoman Turkish

آیی

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *adïg (“bear”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰑𐰍 (d¹ǧ /⁠adïɣ⁠/), Azerbaijani ayı, Bashkir айыу (ayıw), Kazakh аю (aü), Kyrgyz аюу (ayuu), Tatar аю (ayu), Turkmen aýy, Uyghur ئېيىق (ëyiq) and Uzbek ayiq.

Alternative forms

• آیو (ayu)

Noun

آیی • (ayı)

1. bear, a large mammal in the family Ursidae

   Synonyms: خرس (hirs), دب (dub)

2. (figuratively) stupid, clownish, clumsy fellow

Derived terms

• آیی بالغی (ayı balığı, “seal”)
• آیی طبانی (ayı tabanı, “clumsy, clownish man”)
• آیی قولاغی (ayı kulağı, “bear's ear, auricula”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: ayı

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ayı2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 382
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آیی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 44
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Ursus”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1795
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ایو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 617
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ayı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آیو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 311

Etymology 2

Noun

آیی • (ay)

1. singular definite accusative of آی

Etymology 3

Noun

آیی • (ay)

1. third-person singular possessive of آی