𐰽𐰍

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *asïg (“profit”). Compare also Mongolian ашиг (ašig), a Turkic borrowing.

Noun

𐰽𐰍 (asïɣ)

1. advantage, profit
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 32

     𐰨𐰀:𐰋𐰃𐰠𐰃𐰭𐰠𐰼:𐰽𐰍𐰃:𐰉𐰺:𐰓𐰏𐰇:𐰆𐰞

     anča:biliŋler:asïɣ:bar:edgü:ol

     Know thus: (The omen) has profit, it is good.

References

• Tekin, Talât (1993) “(a)s(ı)g”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 48
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “asığ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 244
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*asɨg”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill