يزنا

Karakhanid

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Common Turkic *yeŕne. Cognate with Azerbaijani yeznə, Uzbek yezna, Bashkir еҙнә (yeźnə) and Tuvan честе (çeste).

Noun

يَزْنا (yaznʾ /yezne/)

1. husband of an elder sister

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972), “yezne:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC

Further reading

• Mahmud al-Kashgarî (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 35.