ككاكون
Karakhanid
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Common Turkic *kȫkegün (“gadfly”).[1]
Cognate with Azerbaijani gigovun and Bashkir күгәүен (kügəwen).
Noun
[edit]كُكاكوُنْ (kökēgǖn)
- a blue fly
- اِكّىِ بُغْرا اَكاشوُرْ، اُتْرا كُكاكوُنْ يَنْجِلوُرْ ― Ékkī buğrā igēšǖr, otrā kökēgǖn yančïlūr. ― Two camels quarrel with eachother, while the blue fly gets stomped.
References
[edit]- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “köke:gü:n”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 710
Further reading
[edit]- 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 II, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 287