يزنا

Karakhanid

Etymology

Inherited from Common Turkic *yeŕne. Cognate with Azerbaijani yeznə, Uzbek yezna, Bashkir еҙнә (yeźnə) and Tuvan честе (çeste).

Noun

يَزْنا (yeznē)

1. husband of an elder sister

References

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

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 III, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 35