يزك

Karakhanid

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yüŕük (“ring”). Cogante with Chuvash ҫӗрӗ (śĕrĕ), Turkish yüzük, Bashkir йөҙөк (yöźök) and Yakut сүһүөх (sühüöq).

Noun

يُزُكْ (yüzük)

1. ring

Descendants

• Khorezmian Turkic: [script needed] (yüzük)
  • Chagatai: [script needed] (üzük)
    • Uzbek: uzuk
    • Uyghur: ئۈزۈك (üzük)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yüzük”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 986

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, page 18