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Old Turkic
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bāy (“rich”). Cognate with Turkish bay (“mister, sir, gentleman”), Uzbek boy, Bashkir бай (bay). Compare also Mongolian баян (bajan), a Turkic borrowing and Manchu ᠪᠠᠶᠠᠨ (bayan), a Mongolic borrowing.
Adjective
𐰉𐰖 (bay)
- rich, wealthy
- Antonyms: 𐰲𐰃𐰍𐰪 (čïɣań), 𐰴𐰺𐰀 (qara)
- 8th century CE, Kültegin Inscription, S10
𐰲𐰃𐰍𐰪:𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰣𐰍:𐰉𐰖:𐰴𐰃𐰡𐰢- čïɣań:bodunïɣ:bay:qïltïm
- I made the poor people wealthy...
References
- Tekin, Talât (1968) “bay”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 310
- Tekin, Talât (1993) “b(a)y”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 27
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ba:y”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 384
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bāj”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill