𐰀𐰲

Old Turkic

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ạ̄č (“hungry, hunger”). Cognate with Chuvash выҫӑ (vyś̬ă), Turkish aç (“hungry”), Uzbek och, Bashkir ас (as, “hungry”), Yakut аас (aas, “hungry”).

Adjective

𐰀𐰲 (āč)

1. hungry

   Antonym: 𐱃𐰸 (toq)

   • 8th century CE, Bilge Khagan Inscription, E38

     𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜:𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰣:𐰀𐰲:𐰼𐱅𐰃

     türük:bodun:āč:erti

     The Turkic peoples were hungry.

References

• Tekin, Talât (1968) “āč”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 299
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “a:ç”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 17
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ạ̄č”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ạ̄č- (“to hunger”). Cognate with Karakhanid ااجْماقْ (āčmaq, “to hunger”), Turkish acıkmak (“to hunger”), Uzbek ochiqmoq, Bashkir асығыу (asığıw), Yakut аас (aas).

Verb

𐰀𐰲 (āč-)

1. (intransitive) to be hungry, to hunger

   Antonym: 𐱃𐰆𐰑 (tod-)

   • 8th century CE, Bilge Khagan Inscription, N6

     𐰾𐰤:𐰀𐰲𐰾𐰺:𐱃𐰆𐰽𐰴:𐰇𐰢𐰔:𐰾𐰤:𐰋𐰃𐰼:𐱃𐰆𐰑𐰽𐰺:𐰀𐰲𐰾𐰴:𐰇𐰢𐰔:𐰾𐰤

     sen:āčsar:todsïq:ömez:sen:bir:todsar:āčsïq:ömez:sen

     If you become hungry, you do not think of satiety again, if you become satiated, you do not think of hunger again.

Derived terms

• 𐰀𐰲𐰾𐰴 (āčsïq)

References

• Tekin, Talât (1968) “āč-”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 299
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “a:ç-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 19