Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/edgü

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

Etymology

From *ed (“thing, goods”).

Adjective

*edgü

good

Derived terms

*edgü-lük
*edgü-ti
*epedgü

Descendants

Oghur:
- Chuvash: ырӑ (yră, “good”)
Common Turkic:

Karluk:
- Karakhanid: اَذْكُو (ʾaδkū /⁠eδgǖ⁠/), 𐽰𐽸𐽲𐽳 (ʾdqw /⁠edkü, etkü⁠/) (Ḳutadġu Bilig)
  - Khorezmian Turkic: [script needed] (eδgü), [script needed] (eygü)
  - → Turki:
    - → Bashkir: изге (izge)
    - → Karachay-Balkar: [script needed] (izgi)
    - → Kazakh: ізгі (ızgı)
    - → Tatar: изге (izge)
    - → Uyghur: ئەزگۇ (ezgu)
    - → Uzbek: ezgu
Kipchak:
- Cuman: eygi
- North Kipchak:
  - Bashkir: эйе (eye, “yes”), иге (ige, “good”)
  - Tatar: иге (ige)
- South Kipchak:
  - Caspian:
    - Kazakh: игі (igı)
  - Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
    - Kyrgyz: ийги (iygi), ийе (iye)
    - Southern Altai: эйе (eye, “yes”)
Proto-Oghuz: *eyɣü
- Old Anatolian Turkish: اَیْكُوٖ (eygü)
  - Azerbaijani: eyi
  - Gagauz: ii
  - Ottoman Turkish: ایو (eyü), ایی (eyi, iyi)
    - Turkish: iyi
- Turkmen: eýgilik
Siberian:
- Old Turkic:
  - Old Turkic: 𐰓𐰏𐰇 (edgü)
  - Old Uyghur: 𐽰𐽸𐽷𐽳 (ʾdkw /⁠edgü⁠/)
- North Siberian:
  - Dolgan: үтүө (ütüö)
  - Yakut: үтүө (ütüö)
- South Siberian:
  - Tuvan: эки (eki, “good”)

References

Clauson, Gerard (1972) “eḏgü:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 51
Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ed, *ed-gü”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Sevortjan, E. V. (1974) “ЕЙИ”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Nauka, page 245