𐰖𐰍𐰃

Old Turkic

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yagï (“enemy, war”). Cognate with Karakhanid يَغٖى (yaɣï̄, “enemy”), Kazakh жау (jau, “enemy”), Khakas чаа (çaa, “war”), Ottoman Turkish یاغی (yağı, “stranger, enemy”).

Noun

𐰖𐰍𐰃 (yaɣï)

1. enemy, hostile

References

• 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), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill