بقاجق
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Karakhanid[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Common Turkic *bākačuk, the diminutive form of بَقا (baqā, “frog”).[1] Compare بَقانَقْ (baqānaq), بَقايَقْ (baqāyaq), بَقانُقْ (baqānuq) and بَقايُقْ (baqāyuq, “the part within the cloven hooves, one half of a cloven hoof”). Semantically compare Old Uyghur [script needed] (sïčɣanaq, “muscle”) from [script needed] (sïčɣan, “mouse”).[2]
Cognate with Kazakh бақалшақ (baqalşaq, “ankle-bone; talus of a horse”), Chagatai [script needed] (bağančaq) and possibly Turkish bacak (“leg”).[3]
Noun[edit]
بَقاجُقْ (baqāčuq)
References[edit]
- ^ Erdal, Marcel (1991) Old Turkic Word Formation[1], volume I, Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 47
- ^ Wilkens, Jens (2021) Handworterbuch des Altuigurischen, Göttingen: Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, page 605
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bacak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “baka:çuk”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 312
Further reading[edit]
- 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 226