𐱃𐰍
Old Turkic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tāg (“mountain”). Cognate with Chuvash ту (tu), Khalaj tâğ, Turkish dağ (“mountain”), Uzbek togʻ, Bashkir тау (taw), Yakut тыа (tıa).
Noun
[edit]𐱃𐰍 (taɣ)
- mountain
- 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 17
- 𐱅𐰭𐰼𐰃:𐰚𐰇𐰲𐰃𐰭𐰀:𐱃𐰍:𐰇𐰔𐰀:𐰖𐰆𐰞:𐰽𐰆𐰉:𐰆𐰇𐰼𐰇𐰯𐰤:𐰘𐰃𐰾:𐰇𐰔𐰀:𐰖𐰽:𐱇:𐰚𐰇𐰼𐰇𐰯𐰤:𐰖𐰆𐰺𐰃𐰖𐰆:𐰉𐰺𐰃𐰯𐰣
- teŋri:küčüŋe:taɣ:üze:yol:sub:körüpen:yiš:üze:yāš:ot:körüpen:yorïyu:barïpan
- Thanks to the strength given by Heaven, having seen way (and) water on a mountain (and) having seen fresh grass on a mountain pasture, it went (there) walking.
- 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 17
Derived terms
[edit]- 𐱃𐰍𐰶 (taɣïq-, “to scale a mountain”)
References
[edit]- Tekin, Talât (1968) “taγ”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 374
- Tekin, Talât (1993) “t(a)g”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 63
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ta:ğ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 463
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*dāg”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill