𐰖𐰍𐰴

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yaŋgak (“walnut”). Cognate with Khalaj yağâq, Turkish yangak, Uzbek yongʻoq, Kazakh жаңғақ (jañğaq). Compare also Hungarian dió, a Turkic borrowing.

Noun

𐰖𐰍𐰴 (yaɣaq)

1. nut
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 64

     𐰖𐰍𐰴𐰞𐰍:𐱃𐰆𐰍𐰺𐰴:𐰇𐰔𐰀:𐱅𐰇𐰾𐰇𐰯𐰤:𐰖𐰖𐰞𐰖𐰆𐰺:𐰢𐰤:𐱅𐰃𐰼

     yaɣaqlïɣ:toɣraq:üze:tüšüpen:yaylayur:men:tér

     Settling down on a poplar full of nuts, I spend the summer, it says.

References

• Tekin, Talât (1993) “y(a)g(a)k”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 64
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yağa:k”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 900
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jAŋgak”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill