Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/tïgrak
 |
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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Turkic *tïgra- (“to be tough”) + *-k.
Adjective
[edit]*tïgrak
Descendants
[edit]- Siberian:
- Old Turkic: [script needed] (tïğraq)
- Old Uyghur: [script needed] (tïğraq)
- Old Turkic: [script needed] (tïğraq)
- Karluk:
- Karakhanid: تِغْراقْ (tïğrāq)
- → Proto-Mongolic: *čixirag
References
[edit]- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Tɨgra- / *Tɨgɨŕ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 471, 472