Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/ẹ̄rig

From Proto-Turkic *ẹ̄r- (“to reach, to strife for”). Kashgarî comments in Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk that 'Oghuz people do not know this word.'

*ẹ̄rig

1. lively

   Synonym: *tīrig

• Common Turkic:
  • Karluk:
    • Karakhanid: اَرِكْ (erik)

• 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 1, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 70
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “eri:g”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 222
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Ērig”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill