𐱃𐰃𐰺𐰭𐰴
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Old Turkic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tïrŋa-k (“fingernail, claw”). Cognate with Chuvash чӗрне (čĕrne), Karakhanid تِرْنْكاقْ (tïrŋaq, “fingernail”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (tïrŋaq, “fingernail”), Turkish tırnak (“fingernail”), Turkmen dyrnak (“fingernail”), Uzbek tirnoq, Bashkir тырнаҡ (tırnaq, “fingernail”), Tuvan дыргак (dırgak, “fingernail”), Yakut тыҥырах (tıñıraq, “nail, claw”).
Noun[edit]
𐱃𐰃𐰺𐰭𐰴 (tïrŋaq)
- (anatomy, zootomy) nail, fingernail, claw
- 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 5
- 𐱃𐰆𐰍𐰣:𐰴𐰆𐰽:𐱃𐰃𐰺𐰭𐰴𐰃:𐰽𐰆𐰲𐰆𐰞𐰆𐰣𐰢𐰃𐰾:𐰖𐰣𐰀:𐱃𐰃𐱃𐰃𐰤𐰢𐰾
- toɣan:quš:tïrŋaqï:sučulanmïš:yana:titinmiš
- The hawk's claws were skinned and torn.
- 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 5
References[edit]
- Tekin, Talât (1993) “tırŋ(a)k”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 64
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “tırŋak”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 551
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*dɨrŋa-k”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill