كوالج
Bulgar
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Acc. to Talât Tekin, reflexive of Bulgar كُوَج (küveç) (>*küveçil) but had metathesis. Acc. to Erdal, from Proto-Turkic *köĺč-, archaic form of Bulgar كُوَج (küeç). See Bulgar بلجِ (balči).
Verb
[edit]كوالج (küvelç)
- (Volga Bulgar) to migrate
- Synonym: كوج
- فان[ى] دنياران كوالجصن باقى اخرة بطوى ― Fânî dönyârân köwelçsan bâkî axirete ba(r)tuwi. ― He went to eternal afterlife while migrating from finite world.
Usage notes
[edit]- küweč- form was only attested with -rüwi (“past tense suffix”), and küwelč- form was only attested with -san (“verbal-adverb suffix”).
References
[edit]- Róna-Tas, András, Fodor, S. (1973) Epigraphica Bulgarica: A Volgai Bolgar-Török Feliratok[1] (in Hungarian), Szeged, pages 92-95
- Tekin, Talât (1988) Volga Bulgar kitabeleri ve Volga Bulgarcası [Volga Bulgarian Ephitaphs and Volga Bulgarian Language][2] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, →ISBN, pages 26, 35, 96
- Erdal, Marcel (1993) Die Sprache der wolgabolgarischen Inschriften (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, pages 121-122