𐰚𐰃𐰘𐰃𐰚

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *keyik (“deer”). Cognate with Chuvash кайӑк (kajăk, “bird”), Turkish geyik, Uzbek kiyik, Khakas киик (kiik).

Noun

𐰚𐰃𐰘𐰃𐰚 (kéyik)

1. herbivorous wild animals, game, prey, deer
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 31

     𐰉𐰺𐰽:𐰚𐰃𐰘𐰃𐰚:𐰭𐰚𐰀:𐰢𐰭𐰚𐰀:𐰉𐰺𐰢𐰃𐰾

     bars:kéyik:eŋke:meŋke:barmïš

     A tiger went to look for game and prey.

References

• Tekin, Talât (1968) “keyik”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 350
• Tekin, Talât (1993) “kiyik”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 58
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kéyik”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 755
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*gejik”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill