𐰍𐰕

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *āgïŕ (“mouth”). Cognate with Chuvash ҫӑвар (śăvar), Khalaj âğız, Turkish ağız (“mouth”), Uzbek ogʻiz, Bashkir ауыҙ (awıź), Tuvan аас (aas).

Noun

𐰍𐰕 (aɣïz)

1. (anatomy) mouth
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 27

     𐰋𐰇𐰼𐰃:𐰍𐰔𐰃:𐰢𐰾𐰃𐰢𐰃𐰾

     böri:aɣzï:emsimiš

     The wolf's mouth got poisonous.

References

• Tekin, Talât (1993) “(a)g(ı)z”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 47
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ağız”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 98
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Agɨŕ(*örüŋ)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill