𐱅𐰘𐰭

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tegiŋ (“squirrel”). Cognate with Turkish değin, Uzbek tiyin, Bashkir тейен (teyen, “squirrel”), Yakut тииҥ (tiiñ, “squirrel”).

Noun

𐱅𐰘𐰭 (teyiŋ)

1. squirrel
   • 8th century CE, Bilge Khagan Inscription, N12

     𐰚𐰇𐰚:𐱅𐰘𐰭𐰃𐰤:𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜𐰢𐰀:𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰣𐰢𐰀:𐰴𐰔𐰍𐰣𐰆:𐰋𐰃𐰼𐱅𐰢

     kök:teyiŋin:türüküme:bodunuma:qazɣanu:bértim

     ...and blue squirrels I gained for my Turkic people.

References

• Tekin, Talât (1968) “täyäŋ”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 379
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “teyiŋ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 569
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*dEgiŋ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill