𐰔𐰃𐰍

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *aŕïg. Cognate with Turkish azı (“molar”). Compare also Mongolian араа (araa), a Turkic borrowing.

Noun

𐰔𐰃𐰍 (azïɣ)

1. (zootomy) tusk
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 6

     𐰑𐰍𐰭:𐰴𐰺𐰣𐰃:𐰖𐰺𐰞𐰢𐰆𐰾:𐱃𐰆𐰭𐰆𐰔𐰆𐰭:𐰔𐰃𐰍𐰃:𐰽𐰃𐰣𐰢𐰃𐰾:𐱅𐰃𐰼

     adïɣïŋ:qarnï:yarïlmïš:toŋuzuŋ:azïɣï:sïnmïš:tér

     (At fight) the bear's belly was slit open (and) the boar's tusks were broken, it says.

References

• Tekin, Talât (1993) “azıg”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 51
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “azığ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 283
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*aŕɨg”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill