𐰚𐰃𐰲𐰏

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kičüg (“small”). Cognate with Chuvash кӗҫӗн (kĕś̬ĕn), Turkish küçük (“small”), Uzbek kichik, Bashkir кесе (kese), Yakut куччугуй (kuccuguy). Compare also Hungarian kicsiny, a Turkic borrowing.

Adjective

𐰚𐰃𐰲𐰏 (kičig)

1. small, little, young

   Antonym: 𐰋𐰓𐰜 (bedük)

   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 67

     𐱃𐰖𐰏𐰇𐰤𐱃𐰣:𐰢𐰣𐰃𐰽𐱃𐰣𐱃𐰴𐰃:𐰚𐰃𐰲𐰏:𐰓𐰃𐱃𐰺:𐰉𐰆𐰺𐰆𐰀:𐰍𐰆𐰺𐰆:𐰾𐰓𐰯

     taygüntan:manïstantaqï:kičig:di(n)tar:burua:ɣuru:ešidip

     ...I, the young pious staying at the Taygüntan monastery, after having listened to the spiritual master of presage...

References

• Tekin, Talât (1968) “kiçig”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 350
• Tekin, Talât (1993) “kiç(i)g”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 58
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kiçig”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 696
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*kičük /-g”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill