ʾmʾry
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Old Uyghur[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Middle Persian ʾbʾryg (abārīg, “other, remaining”).[1]
Determiner[edit]
ʾmʾry (amarï)
- some; an unspecified quantity or number of
- 11th century CE, Story of Prince Kalyanamkara and Papamkara, II.2:
- ʾmʾry tynlγlʾr cγry ʾnkyrʾr ywnk ʾnkyrʾr kyntyr ʾnkyrʾr pwz prtʾtp qʾrs twqywr
- amarï tïnlïɣlar čïɣrï eŋirer yuŋ eŋirer kentir eŋirer böz bertetip qars toqïyur
- Some people spin mill-wheels, spin wool, spin hemp; knitting cloth and weaving fabric.
References[edit]
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “amarı:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 164
- Caferoğlu, Ahmet (1968) “amarı”, in Eski Uygur Türkçesi Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 260) (in Turkish), Istanbul: Edebiyat Fakültesi Basımevi, page 13
- Hamilton, James (2020) “ämäri”, in 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, page 170
- Wilkens, Jens (2021) “amarı”, in Handworterbuch des Altuigurischen, Göttingen: Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, page 42