𐱃𐰃𐰺𐰭𐰴

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tïrŋa-k (“fingernail, claw”). Cognate with Chuvash чӗрне (čĕrne), Karakhanid تِرْنْكاقْ (tïrŋaq, “fingernail”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (tïrŋaq, “fingernail”), Turkish tırnak (“fingernail”), Turkmen dyrnak (“fingernail”), Uzbek tirnoq, Bashkir тырнаҡ (tırnaq, “fingernail”), Tuvan дыргак (dırgak, “fingernail”), Yakut тыҥырах (tıñıraq, “nail, claw”).

Noun

𐱃𐰃𐰺𐰭𐰴 (tïrŋaq)

1. (anatomy, zootomy) nail, fingernail, claw
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 5

     𐱃𐰆𐰍𐰣:𐰴𐰆𐰽:𐱃𐰃𐰺𐰭𐰴𐰃:𐰽𐰆𐰲𐰆𐰞𐰆𐰣𐰢𐰃𐰾:𐰖𐰣𐰀:𐱃𐰃𐱃𐰃𐰤𐰢𐰾

     toɣan:quš:tïrŋaqï:sučulanmïš:yana:titinmiš

     The hawk's claws were skinned and torn.

References

• Tekin, Talât (1993) “tırŋ(a)k”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 64
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “tırŋak”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 551
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*dɨrŋa-k”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill