𐰖𐰔

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yāŕ (“spring; summer”). Cognate with Chuvash ҫур (śur), Khalaj yâaz, Turkish yaz (“summer”), Uzbek yoz, Bashkir яҙ (yaź), Yakut саас (saas). Compare also Hungarian nyár, a Turkic borrowing.

Noun

𐰖𐰔 (yaz)

1. spring
   • 8th century CE, Bilge Khagan Inscription, S2

     𐰆𐱃𐰔:𐰺𐱃𐰸𐰃:𐱃𐰆𐰴𐰔:𐰖𐱁𐰢𐰃:𐰖𐰔𐰣:𐱃𐱃𐰉𐰃:𐱃𐰯𐰀:𐰾𐰇𐰠𐰓𐰢

     otuz:artuqï:toquz:yašïma:yazïn:tatabï:tapa:süledim

     At the age of thirty-nine, in spring, I went on a campaign against the Kumo Xi.

Derived terms

• 𐰖𐰔𐰣 (yazïn, “during spring”)

See also

Seasons in Old Turkic (layout · text) · category
𐰖𐰔 (yaz, “spring”)	𐰖𐰖 (yay, “summer”)	𐰚𐰇𐰔 (küz, “autumn”)	𐰶𐰃𐱁 (qïš, “winter”)

References

• Tekin, Talât (1968) “yaz”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 399
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ya:z”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 982
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jāŕ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill