𐰚𐰃𐰘𐰃𐰚

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Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *keyik (deer). Cognate with Chuvash кайӑк (kajăk, bird), Turkish geyik, Uzbek kiyik, Khakas киик (kiik).

Noun

𐰚𐰃𐰘𐰃𐰚 (kéyik)

  1. herbivorous wild animals, game, prey, deer
    • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 31
      𐰉𐰺𐰽:𐰚𐰃𐰘𐰃𐰚:𐰭𐰚𐰀:𐰢𐰭𐰚𐰀:𐰉𐰺𐰢𐰃𐰾
      bars:kéyik:eŋke:meŋke:barmïš
      A tiger went to look for game and prey.

References

  • Tekin, Talât (1968) “keyik”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 350
  • Tekin, Talât (1993) “kiyik”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 58
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kéyik”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 755
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*gejik”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill