𐱃𐰍

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tāg (mountain). Cognate with Chuvash ту (tu), Khalaj tâğ, Turkish dağ (mountain), Uzbek togʻ, Bashkir тау (taw), Yakut тыа (tıa).

Noun

𐱃𐰍 (t¹ǧ /taɣ/)

  1. (Orkhon Turkic) mountain

Derived terms

  • 𐱃𐰍𐰶 (t¹ǧq̊² /⁠taɣïq-⁠/, to scale a mountain)

References

  • Tekin, Talât (1968) “taγ”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 374
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ta:ğ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 463
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*dāg”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Old Uyghur

Orthographic variants
Uyghur script 𐾀𐽶𐽲 (tyq /⁠tïġ⁠/)
Orkhon script 𐱅𐰃𐰍 (t²iǧ /⁠tig, tïġ⁠/)
𐱅𐰏 (t²g /⁠tig⁠/)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tı̈̄g (a dark color).

Noun

𐱃𐰍 (t¹ǧ /tïg/)

  1. (Early Uyghur, rare) roan, gray, gray with a reddish hue
    Synonym: 𐽼𐽳𐽴𐽰𐽲 (pwzʾq /⁠bozaḳ⁠/)
    • c. 9th century, Toyoḳ 11 (ETY II 58):[1]
      𐱅𐰃𐰍:𐱃𐰀𐰽:𐰢𐰍:𐱅𐰇𐰔𐰠𐰇𐰏:𐰆𐰞
      t²iǧ:t¹as¹:mǧ:t²üzl²üg:ul¹
      /Tïġ taš maḥ tözlüg ol./
      Those reddish-gray stones are selenian in nature.

References

  1. ^ This fragment is lost.
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “tı:ğ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 463
  • Wilkens, Jens (2021) “(1) tıg ~ t(ı)g”, in Handwörterbuch des Altuigurischen (in German), Göttingen: Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, page 712