𐰃𐰤𐰏𐰤

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ingen (“female camel”). Cognate with 𐰃𐰤𐰏𐰛 (ingek, “cow”).

Noun

𐰃𐰤𐰏𐰤 (ingen)

1. female camel
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 5

     𐰇𐰼𐰇𐰭:𐰃𐰤𐰏𐰤𐰃:𐰉𐰆𐱃𐰆𐰞𐰀𐰢𐰃𐰾

     ürüŋ:ingeni:botulamïš

     ...his white female camel had just given birth to a colt.

Alternative forms

• 𐰃𐰤𐰐𐰤 (ingen) (Yenisei Kyrgyz)

Related terms

• 𐱅𐰋𐰀 (tebe)
• 𐰉𐰆𐰍𐰺𐰀 (buɣra)
• 𐰉𐰆𐱃𐰆 (botu)
• 𐰃𐰤𐰏𐰛 (ingek)

References

• Tekin, Talât (1993) “ing(ä)n”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 55
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ingen”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 184
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*in-gek (/*ɨn-gak), *in-ken”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill