𐰴𐰆𐰢𐰆𐰺𐰽𐰍𐰀

Old Turkic

FWOTD – 29 October 2017

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kumursga (“ant”). Cognate with Khalaj qumurğâç, Salar gumısgan, Uzbek qumursqa, Bashkir ҡырмыҫҡа (qırmıśqa), Yakut кымырдаҕас (kımırdağas).

Noun

𐰴𐰆𐰢𐰆𐰺𐰽𐰍𐰀 (qumursɣa)

1. ant
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 37

     𐰋𐰃𐰼:𐰴𐰺𐰃:𐰇𐰚𐰇𐰔𐰇𐰏:𐰋𐰃𐰠𐰃𐰤:𐰋𐰃𐰲𐰀:𐰴𐰆𐰢𐰆𐰺𐰽𐰍𐰀:𐰘𐰃𐰢𐰃𐰾

     bir:qarï:öküzüg:bélin:biče:qumursɣa:yémiš

     An old ox was eaten by ants, gnawing around its waist.

References

• Tekin, Talât (1993) “kumursga”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 57
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kumursğa:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 628
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kumɨr-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill