اكز

Karakhanid

Alternative forms

• اُكُوزْ (ökǖz)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *öküŕ (“ox”). Cognate with Chuvash вӑкӑр (văk̬ăr), Turkish öküz, Bashkir үгеҙ (ügeź) and Yakut оҕус (oğus).

Noun

اُكُزْ (öküz)

1. ox

   اُكُزْ اَذاقیٖ بُلْغِنْجا بُزاغُو بَشیٖ بُلْسا يِيكْ ― Öküz aδaqï bolɣïnčā buzāɣū bašï bolsā yég. ― It's better to be a head of the calf than foot of the ox.

Descendants

• Chagatai:
  • Uzbek: hoʻkiz
  • Uyghur: ئۆكۈز (öküz)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “öküz”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 120

Further reading

• al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume I, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 59