بقاجق
Karakhanid
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-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), Handwörterbuch des Altuigurischen (in German), 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, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 312
Further reading
[edit]- Mahmud al-Kashgari (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 Kurumu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 226.