امدی

Karakhanid

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *em-. Cognate with Azerbaijani indi.

Adverb

اَمْدیٖ (emdi)

1. now

   اُبْكَمْ كَلِبْ اُغْرَدِمْ
   اَرْسْلَنْليُو كُكْرَدىمْ
   اَلْبْﻻرْ بَشِنْ تُغْرَدِمْ
   اَمْدیٖ مَنیٖ كیٖـمْ تُتارْ

   Öpkem kelip oɣradïm
   Arslanlayu kökredim
   Alplar bašïn toɣradïm
   Emdi meni kim tutār

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Descendants

• Chagatai: ایمدی (emdi)
  • Uzbek: endi
  • Uyghur: ئەمدى (emdi)

References

• 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 125

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology

A derivation of Proto-Turkic *em- (“now”)

Adverb

امدی (imdi/emdi)

1. now
   • 13th century, Şeyyad Hamza, Yūsuf u Züleyhā; reprinted in Гузеев, В.Г., editor, Староосманский язык, 1979:

     امدى دكلك سوزومه طوتك قلاق
     بر سوز ایدم كیم شكردن طاتلوراق
     واردى كنعانده بر سرور كشی
     آدى یعقوب كندو پیغامبركشى

     Imdi diŋläŋ sözümä dutuŋ qulaq
     Bir söz äyidäm kim šäkkärdän datluraq
     Vardï Kän'ānda bir särvär kiši
     Adï Ya'qūb gändü peyɣāmbär kiši
     

     Now listen, turn your ears to my word(s)
     I will tell you word(s) that are tastier than sugar
     There was a master man in Canaan
     His name [was] Jacob, himself [he was] a prophet man.

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: indi
• Ottoman Turkish: امدی (imdi), شو امدی (şu imdi)
  • Turkish: şimdi (for this sense, form "imdi" do exist regionally and sometimes informally)