𐰖𐰍

Old Turkic

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yāg (“fat”). Cognate with Chuvash ҫу (śu), Khalaj yâğ, Karakhanid ياغْ (yāɣ, “fat”), Turkish yağ (“fat, oil”), Uzbek yoʻg, Yakut сыа (sıa).

Noun

𐰖𐰍 (yaɣ)

1. fat, grease, oil
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 13

     𐰖𐰍𐰞𐰍:𐰴𐰢𐰃𐰲:𐰉𐰆𐰞𐰆𐰯𐰣:𐰖𐰞𐰍𐰖𐰆:𐱅𐰃𐰼𐰃𐰠𐰢𐰃𐰾:𐰇𐰠𐰇𐰢𐰓𐰀:𐰆𐰔𐰢𐰃𐰾:𐱅𐰃𐰼

     yaɣlïɣ:qamïč:bulupan:yalɣayu:tirilmiš:ölümde:ozmïš:tér

     She kept herself alive by licking a greasy ladle (and thus) she escaped death, it says.

References

• Tekin, Talât (1993) “y(a)gl(ı)g”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 67
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ya:ğ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 895
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jāg”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yag- (“to rain”). Cognate with Chuvash ҫу (śu), Khalaj yağmaq, Karakhanid يَغْماقْ (yaɣmāq, “to rain, pour down”), Turkish yağmak (“to rain”), Bashkir яуыу (yawıw), Tuvan чаар (çaar).

Verb

𐰖𐰍 (yaɣ-)

1. (intransitive) to rain, pour down
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 53

     𐰉𐰆𐰔:𐰉𐰆𐰞𐰃𐱃:𐰖𐰆𐰺𐰃𐰑𐰃:𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰆𐰣:𐰇𐰔𐰀:𐰖𐰍𐰑𐰃

     boz:bulït:yorïdï:bodun:üze:yaɣdï

     A gray cloud passed; it rained over people.

References

• Tekin, Talât (1993) “yag-”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 67
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yağ-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 896
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jag-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[2], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill