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Old Turkic
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yālga- (“to lick”). Cognate with Chuvash ҫула (śula), Khalaj yalğamaq, Turkish yalamak, Uzbek yalamoq, Bashkir ялау (yalaw), Yakut салаа (salaa), Tuvan чылгаар (çılgaar). Compare also Mongolian долоох (doloox, “to lick”).
Verb
𐰖𐰞𐰍𐰀 (yalɣa-)
- (transitive) to lick
- 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 13
𐰖𐰍𐰞𐰍:𐰴𐰢𐰃𐰲:𐰉𐰆𐰞𐰆𐰯𐰣:𐰖𐰞𐰍𐰖𐰆:𐱅𐰃𐰼𐰃𐰠𐰢𐰃𐰾:𐰇𐰠𐰇𐰢𐰓𐰀:𐰆𐰔𐰢𐰃𐰾:𐱅𐰃𐰼- yaɣlïɣ:qamïč:bulupan:yalɣayu:tirilmiš:ölümde:ozmïš:tér
- She kept herself alive by licking a greasy ladle (and thus) she escaped death, it says.
References
- Tekin, Talât (1993) “y(a)lg(a)-”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 68
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yalğa:-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 926
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jālga-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill