𐱃𐰺𐰃𐰍

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tạrïg (“millet”). Cognate with Chuvash тырӑ (tyră), Turkish darı, Uzbek tariq, Bashkir тары (tarı), Khakas тарығ (tarığ). Compare also Mongolian тариа (taria), a Turkic borrowing.

Noun

𐱃𐰺𐰃𐰍 (tarïɣ)

1. millet, crop
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 53

     𐱃𐰺𐰃𐰍:𐰋𐰃𐰾𐰓𐰃:𐰖𐰽:𐱇:𐰇𐰤𐰓𐰃

     tarïɣ:bišdi:yaš:ot:ündi

     The crops ripened; the fresh grass sprouted.

References

• Tekin, Talât (1993) “t(a)rıg”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 63
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “tarığ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 537-538
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*dạrɨ-g”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill