𐰴𐰆𐰑𐰺𐰆𐰸

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kudruk (“tail”). Cognate with Chuvash хӳре (hüre), Khalaj qudruq, Karakhanid قُذْرُقْ (quδruq, “tail”), Turkish kuyruk (“tail”), Uzbek quyruq, Bashkir ҡойроҡ (qoyroq), Yakut кутурук (kuturuk, “tail”). Compare also Mongolian хударга (xudarga).

Noun

𐰴𐰆𐰑𐰺𐰆𐰸 (qudruq)

1. (zootomy) tail
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 50

     𐱃𐰃𐰍:𐱃:𐰴𐰆𐰑𐰺𐰆𐰸𐰃𐰣:𐱅𐰇𐰏𐰇𐰯:𐱅𐰃𐰏𐰼𐱅:𐰖𐰔𐰍:𐰴𐰆𐰑𐰃:𐰖𐰑𐰺𐱃

     tïɣ:at:qudruqïn:tügüp:tigret:yazïɣ:qodï:yadrat

     Tie up the roan horse's tail into a knot and make it run until it breaks wind; make the bay (horse) run until it (almost) spreads down (on the ground)

References

• Tekin, Talât (1993) “kudruk”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 57
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kuḏruk”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 604
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kudruk”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill