𐰖𐰭𐰞

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yaŋïl- (“to mistake”). Cognate with Turkish yanılmak.

Verb

𐰖𐰭𐰞 (yaŋïl-)

1. (intransitive) to mistake, err
   • 8th century CE, Kültegin Inscription, S10-11

     𐰖𐰭𐰞𐰯:𐰇𐰠𐰾𐰚𐰭𐰤:𐰘𐰢𐰀:𐰉𐰆𐰦𐰀:𐰆𐰺𐱃𐰢

     yaŋïlïp:ölsüküŋün:yeme:bunta:urtum

     ...and how you would (otherwise) perish by making mistakes, this, too I have recorded here.

References

• Tekin, Talât (1968) “yaŋïl”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 396
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yaŋıl-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 951
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jAŋɨl”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill