اشق

Early Old Oghuz

Etymology

Clauson suggests that its an corruption of Proto-Turkic *alčak.

Noun

اَشَقْ (ašak)

1. foot of a mountain

Descendants

• Old Anatolian Turkish: اشاق
  • Classical Azerbaijani:
    • Qashqai: آشّاق (aşşaq)
• Salar: aşaq (“low”)
• Turkmen: aşāk (“low”)
• → Kipchak: [script needed] (aşaq)
• ⇒ Proto-Oghuz: *ašākga (“below, dative of low”)
  • Classical Azerbaijani:
    • Azerbaijani: aşağı, aşağa
    • Qashqai: آشّاغى, آشّاغا
  • Gagauz: aşaa
  • Ottoman Turkish: اشاغه
    • Turkish: aşağı
    • → Crimean Tatar: aşağa
  • → Kipchak: [script needed] (aşağa)
    • North Kipchak:
      • Bashkir: әшәке (əşəke)
      • Tatar: әшәке (äşäke)
• ⇒ Proto-Oghuz: *اَشقْلاماقْ (ašāklamaq, “to underestimate”)
  • Azerbaijani: aşağılamaq
  • Gagauz: aşaalamaa
  • Ottoman Turkish:
    • Turkish: aşağılamak
    • → Crimean Tatar: aşağalamaq

References

• Yıkılmaz, A. (2020). Alt ~ Aşağı ~ Ast Sözlerine Dâir. Türkbilig(39), 59-70.
• 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 I, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 66
• Clauson, Gerard (1972), An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 259-260