Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/edgü

This Proto-Turkic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Turkic

Etymology

From *ed (“thing, goods”).

Adjective

*edgü

1. good

Derived terms

• *edgü-lük
• *edgü-ti
• *epedgü

Descendants

• Oghur:
  • Chuvash: ырӑ (yră, “good”)
• Common Turkic:

• Medieval:
  • Karakhanid: اَذْكُو (eδgǖ), [script needed] (eygü), [script needed] (ezgü)
    • Khorezmian: [script needed] (eδgü), [script needed] (eygü)
    • → Turki:
      • → Bashkir: изге (izge)
      • → Kazakh: ізгі (ızgı)
      • → Tatar: изге (izge)
      • → Uyghur: ئەزگۇ (ezgu)
      • → Uzbek: ezgu
• Kipchak:
  • Kipchak: [script needed] (eygi)
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: эйе (eye, “yes”), иге (ige, “good”)
    • Tatar: иге (ige)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Caspian:
      • Kazakh: игі (igı)
    • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
      • Kyrgyz: ийги (iygi)
      • Southern Altai: эйе (eye, “yes”)
• Proto-Oghuz: *eyɣü
  • West Oghuz:
    • Old Anatolian Turkish: اَیْكُوٖ (eygü)
      • Azerbaijani: eyi
      • Gagauz: ii
      • Ottoman Turkish: ایو (eyü), ایی (eyi, iyi)
        • Turkish: iyi
  • East Oghuz:
    • Turkmen: eýgilik
    • Salar: ī
• Siberian:
  • Old Turkic:
    • Old Turkic: 𐰓𐰏𐰇 (edgü)
    • Old Uyghur: 𐽰𐽸𐽷𐽳 (edgü)
  • North Siberian:
    • Dolgan: үтүө (ütüö)
    • Yakut: үтүө (ütüö)
  • South Siberian:
    • Tuvan: эки (eki, “good”)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “eḏgü:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 51
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ed, *ed-gü”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill