𐰖𐰍𐰃

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yagï (“enemy, war”). Cognate with Chuvash ҫу (śu, “heathen”), Karakhanid يَغٖى (yaɣï̄, “enemy”), Ottoman Turkish یاغی (yağı, “stranger, enemy”), Kazakh жау (jau, “enemy”), Khakas чаа (çaa, “war”). Compare also Mongolian дайн (dajn, “war”), Evenki догор (dogor, “friend”), Korean 되 (doe).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /*jɑ.ɢɯ/

Noun

𐰖𐰍𐰃 (y¹ǧi /yaɣï/)

1. enemy, hostile
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 34

     𐰴𐰣:𐰾𐰇𐰚𐰀:𐰉𐰺𐰢𐰃𐰾:𐰖𐰍𐰃𐰍:𐰽𐰣𐰨𐰢𐰃𐰾

     qn¹:s²üka:b¹r¹mis²:y¹ǧiǧ:s¹n¹nčmis²

     /qan sükä barmïš yaɣïɣ sančmïš/

     A khan went on a campaign (and) routed the enemy.

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

References

• Tekin, Talât (1968) “yaγï”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 395
• Tekin, Talât (1993) “y(a)gı”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 67
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yağı:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 898
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jagɨ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill