𐰀𐰲

Old Turkic

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ạ̄č (“hungry, hunger”). The verb is from homophonous Proto-Turkic *ạ̄č- (“to hunger”). Cognate with Karakhanid ااجْماقْ (āčmaq, “to hunger”), Bashkir ас (as, “hungry”), Turkish aç (“hungry”), Yakut аас (aas, “hungry”).

Adjective

𐰀𐰲 (āč)

1. hungry

Antonyms

• 𐱃𐰸 (toq)

Verb

𐰀𐰲 (āč-)

1. to be hungry, to hunger

Derived terms

• 𐰀𐰲𐰾𐰴 (āčsïq)

Antonyms

• 𐱃𐰆𐰑 (tod-)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “a:ç”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 17
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ạ̄č”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill