𐰴𐰖𐰀

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *k(i)aya (“rock”). Cognate with Old Uyghur 𐽲𐾄𐽰𐽶𐽰, Turkish kaya, Uzbek qoya, Bashkir ҡая (qaya), Yakut хайа (qaya). Compare also Mongolian хад (xad), Proto-Samoyedic *koəjə (“mountain”).

Noun

𐰴𐰖𐰀 (qaya)

1. rock
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 51

     𐰖𐰽𐰞:𐰴𐰖𐰀:𐰖𐰖𐰞𐰍𐰢:𐰴𐰃𐰔𐰃𐰞:𐰴𐰖𐰀:𐰴𐰃𐰽𐰞𐰍𐰢:𐰆𐰞

     yašïl:qaya:yaylaɣïm:qïzïl:qaya:qïšlaɣïm:ol

     My summer quarters is a green rock and my winter quarters is a red rock.

References

• Tekin, Talât (1993) “k(a)ya”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 56
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kaya:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 674
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*K(i)aja”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill