تنكماق
Karakhanid
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *toŋ-. Cogante with Turkish donmak, Kipchak toꝯ.
Verb
تُنْكْماقْ (tunkmʾq /toŋmaq/) (third-person singular aorist تُنْكارْ (tunkʾr /toŋar/))
- (intransitive) to freeze
- سُوڨْ تُنْكْدٖی ― sūv tunkdī /suv toŋdï/ ― the water froze
- (intransitive) to freeze to death
- اَرْ تُنْكْدٖی ― ʾar tunkdī /er toŋdï/ ― the man froze to death
Descendants
Further reading
- 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, pages 390-391