𐽰𐽸

Old Uyghur

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *et (“meat”). Cognate with Chuvash ӳт (üt, “body”), Turkish et, Yakut эт (et).

Noun

𐽰𐽸 or 𐽰𐽰𐽸 or 𐽰𐽸𐾂 or 𐽰𐾀𐽰 or 𐽰𐽰𐾀 (ed /ʾd/ or ed /ʾʾd/ or eḍ /ʾḍ/ or et /ʾt/ or et /ʾʾt/)

1. (anatomy) meat, flesh (both of human and of game)
2. (anatomy) skin, skin color, appearance
3. body
   • 11th century, Viśvantara-Jātaka (TT13.01)‎^[1], BT13.01.06.03 (053-054)‎^[2]:

     𐽰𐾀 𐾀𐽶𐾁 𐽰𐽳𐽶𐽴𐽰 𐽹𐽶𐽺𐽷 𐽷𐾁𐽼 𐾀𐽰 𐾆 𐽰𐽰𐽾𐾀𐽳 […] 𐽰𐽳𐽶𐽷𐽷𐽰𐾁𐽶

     […] et til üze mïŋ Kalpta ertü[rü] öggeli […]

     […] get to praise over a span of a thousand Kalpas using [their] gestures and words (lit. bodies and tongues).

Compound terms

• 𐽰𐽸 𐽰𐽰𐽻𐾅𐾁𐽶𐽲 (et ašlïg, “carnivorous, a type of demon”)
• 𐽰𐽰𐽸 𐽰𐽰𐽾𐽳𐽷 (et erük, “plump, meaty (of any fruit)”)
• 𐽰𐽰𐽸 𐽲𐾄𐽶𐽾𐾀𐽶𐽿 (et kïrtïš, “skin color”)
• 𐽰𐽰𐽸 𐽷𐽳𐽶𐽴 (et köz, “material eye, materialistic, short-sighted worldview (cf. Calque of Sanskrit मांसचक्षुस् (māṃsacakṣus))”)
• 𐽰𐽰𐽸 𐾀𐽰𐽺𐽽𐽳 (et tanču, “name of one of many fetal periods, a rough equivalent of morula”)
• 𐽰𐽰𐽸 𐽶𐽳𐽹𐽲𐽰𐽷 (et yumgak, “name of one of many fetal periods, a rough equivalent of embryo”)
• 𐽰𐾀𐽰𐽳𐽶𐽴 (etöz, “body, corporeality”)
• 𐽰𐽸𐽶𐽶𐽹𐽰𐽴 (etyémez, “vegetarian, a follower of the Manichaean belief”)

Derived terms

• 𐽰𐽰𐽸𐽰𐽷 (etek, “ear lobe”)
• 𐽰𐽸𐽽𐽶 (etči, “butcher”)
• 𐽰𐽰𐽸𐾁𐽶𐽲 (etlig, “slaughterhouse, abattoir”)

Descendants

• Western Yugur: it (iʰt, “meat, supper”)

References

• Caferoğlu, Ahmet (1968) “ät”, in Eski Uygur Türkçesi Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 260) (in Turkish), Istanbul: Edebiyat Fakültesi Basımevi, page 77
• Hamilton, James (2020) “'ät T”, in Korkut, Ece, Birkan, İsmet, transl., Budacı İyi Kalpli ve Kötü Kalpli Prens Masalının Uygurcası - Prens Kalyāṇaṃkara ve Pāpaṃkara Hikâyesi (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları, →ISBN, page 171
• Wilkens, Jens (2021) “ät”, in Handworterbuch des Altuigurischen, Göttingen: Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, page 126