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Old Turkic
Etymology 1
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *āŕ (“few, very little”). Cognate with Karakhanid اازْ (āz, “scanty”), Turkish az (“few, little”), Turkmen āz (“few, little”), Bashkir әҙ (əź, “few, little”).
Adjective
𐰀𐰕 (āz)
- few, scanty
- 8th century CE, Bilge Khagan Inscription, E32
𐰋𐰃𐰔:𐰔:𐰼𐱅𐰢𐰔:𐰖𐰉𐰔:𐰼𐱅𐰢𐰔- biz:az:ertimiz:yabïz:ertimiz
- We were few and in a bad condition.
Adverb
𐰀𐰕 (āz)
- a little
Derived terms
- 𐰔𐰴𐰪𐰀 (azqïńa, “very few”)
- 𐰔𐰲𐰃 (azča, “a few”)
References
- Tekin, Talât (1968) “az”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 306
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “a:z”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 727
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Āŕ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Etymology 2
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *āŕ- (“to go astray, lose one's way”). Cognate with Karakhanid اازْماقْ (āzmāq, “to lose one's way”), Chuvash ур (ur, “to lose mind, go mad”), Turkmen āzmak (“to go astray”), Turkish azmak (“to go astray, to go mad”), Bashkir аҙыу (aźıw, “to lead immoral life, degenerate”).
Verb
𐰀𐰕 (āz-)
- (intransitive) to go astray, to lose one's way
- (figurative, intransitive) to die, perish
- Synonym: 𐰇𐰠 (öl-)
circa 8th-9th centuries,
Begre (e-11) line 2.5:
- 𐰚𐰇𐰥𐰀𐰖𐰀𐰔𐰑𐰢𐰀
- kün²ay¹azd¹ma
- / küne aya azïdïma./
- In day and night I perished
Derived terms
References
- Tekin, Talât (1968) “az-”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 307
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “a:z-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 729
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*āŕ-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill