qursaq
Azerbaijani
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Likely from an earlier Common Turkic *kugursak (cf. Old Turkic [script needed] (quɣursaq) or *kurugsak,[1] compare Karakhanid قُرُغْساقْ (kuruɣsāq)).
The possibility of the latter being a derivation of *kūrïk or *kūrïgak (“dry”) was proposed already by Kashgari, who connected it with قُرُغْسٖیماقْ (kuruɣsïmāq, “to dry”) ("This is why 'stomach' is called قُرُغْساقْ (kuruɣsāq), since it dries out for every hour that passes and a hunger for food arises in it."[2][3]). There is, however, a possibility that the Karakhanid form is metathesized under the influence of a folk etymology, which also found its way into Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk.
Räsänen held that the word is derived from *kur (“belt”) + *-sak (as in bağırsaq).[4]
Yet another view, that of Sevortjan,[5] held that *kur in *kursak is synonymous with *kar, as in *karïn (“stomach”), this view is, however, not supported anymore.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]qursaq (definite accusative qursağı, plural qursaqlar)
Declension
[edit]| Declension of qursaq | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |||||||
| nominative | qursaq |
qursaqlar | ||||||
| definite accusative | qursağı |
qursaqları | ||||||
| dative | qursağa |
qursaqlara | ||||||
| locative | qursaqda |
qursaqlarda | ||||||
| ablative | qursaqdan |
qursaqlardan | ||||||
| definite genitive | qursağın |
qursaqların | ||||||
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Levitskaja, L. S., Dybo, A. V., Rassadin, V. I. (2000) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 6, Moscow: Indrik, page 166
- ^ al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume III, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 334
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 657b, 658b
- ^ Räsänen, Martti, (1957), Materialien zur Morphologie der türkischen Sprache, Volume 21 of Studia orientalia, Sociatas orientalis Fennica, page 109
- ^ Sevortjan, E. V. (1966) Аффиксы именного словообразования в азербайджанском языке [Nominal word-formation affixes in Azerbaijani][1] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, page 222
Further reading
[edit]- “qursaq” in Obastan.com.