ʾʾyʾ
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Old Uyghur
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Turkic *āya (“palm”). Cognate with Turkish aya.
Noun
[edit]ʾʾyʾ (aya)
- (anatomy) palm
- 11th century CE, Story of Prince Kalyanamkara and Papamkara, VI.8
- ʾʾmrʾx ʾwykwkwm syny ʾyncʾ sʾvʾr mn ʾʾyʾdʾxy yyncw ii mwncwx tʾk
- amraq ögüküm séni ïnča sever men ayadaqï yinčü II mončuq teg
- My dear child, I love you like this; like two pearly beads in my palm.
- 11th century CE, Story of Prince Kalyanamkara and Papamkara, VI.8
Descendants
[edit]- Western Yugur: haya
References
[edit]- Hamilton, James (2020) Korkut, Ece, Birkan, İsmet, transl., Budacı İyi Kalpli ve Kötü Kalpli Prens Masalının Uygurcası - Prens Kalyāṇaṃkara ve Pāpaṃkara Hikâyesi (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları, →ISBN
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “aya:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 267