𐰖𐰀𐰽

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yāĺ (“young, fresh; vegetables”). Cognate with Old Uyghur yʾš (yaš, “fresh, moist”), Karakhanid ياشْ (yāš, “fresh, vegetable”), Turkish yaş (“fresh, wet, moist”), Turkmen ýāş (“young”), Uzbek yosh, Bashkir йәш (yəş), Tuvan чаш (çaş).

𐰖𐰀𐰽 (yāš)

1. vegetable, fresh grass
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 17

     𐱅𐰭𐰼𐰃:𐰚𐰇𐰲𐰃𐰭𐰀:𐱃𐰍:𐰇𐰔𐰀:𐰖𐰆𐰞:𐰽𐰆𐰉:𐰆𐰇𐰼𐰇𐰯𐰤:𐰘𐰃𐰾:𐰇𐰔𐰀:𐰖𐰽:𐱇:𐰚𐰇𐰼𐰇𐰯𐰤:𐰖𐰆𐰺𐰃𐰖𐰆:𐰉𐰺𐰃𐰯𐰣:𐰽𐰆𐰉:𐰃𐰲𐰃𐰯𐰤:𐰖𐰀𐰽:𐰘𐰃𐰯𐰤:𐰇𐰠𐰇𐰢𐰓𐰀:𐰆𐰔𐰢𐰃𐰾:𐱅𐰃𐰼

     teŋri:küčüŋe:atïɣ:üze:yol:sub:körüpen:yiš:üze:yāš:ot:körüpen:yorïyu:barïpan:sub:ičipen:yāš:yépen:ölümde:ozmïš:tér

     Thanks to the strength given by Heaven, having seen way (and) water on a mountain (and) having seen fresh grass on a mountain pasture, it went (there) walking. (Thus), drinking the water (and) eating the fresh grass it escaped death, it says.

𐰖𐰀𐰽 (yāš)

1. fresh, young, moist
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 17

     𐱅𐰭𐰼𐰃:𐰚𐰇𐰲𐰃𐰭𐰀:𐱃𐰍:𐰇𐰔𐰀:𐰖𐰆𐰞:𐰽𐰆𐰉:𐰆𐰇𐰼𐰇𐰯𐰤:𐰘𐰃𐰾:𐰇𐰔𐰀:𐰖𐰽:𐱇:𐰚𐰇𐰼𐰇𐰯𐰤:𐰖𐰆𐰺𐰃𐰖𐰆:𐰉𐰺𐰃𐰯𐰣:𐰽𐰆𐰉:𐰃𐰲𐰃𐰯𐰤:𐰖𐰀𐰽:𐰘𐰃𐰯𐰤:𐰇𐰠𐰇𐰢𐰓𐰀:𐰆𐰔𐰢𐰃𐰾:𐱅𐰃𐰼

     teŋri:küčüŋe:atïɣ:üze:yol:sub:körüpen:yiš:üze:yāš:ot:körüpen:yorïyu:barïpan:sub:ičipen:yāš:yépen:ölümde:ozmïš:tér

     Thanks to the strength given by Heaven, having seen way (and) water on a mountain (and) having seen fresh grass on a mountain pasture, it went (there) walking. (Thus), drinking the water (and) eating the fresh grass it escaped death, it says.

• 𐰖𐱁𐰞 (yašïl)

• Tekin, Talât (1993) “yaş”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 68
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ya:ş”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 975
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jāĺ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill