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Old Turkic
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *beŋi (“joy, pleasure”).
Noun
𐰢𐰭𐰃 (mŋi /meŋi/)
- happiness, joy
- 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 52
𐰉𐰆𐰽𐰀𐰣𐰨⁚𐰺𐰀⁚𐰢𐰭𐰃⁚𐰚𐰠𐰢𐰃𐰾⁚𐱅𐰃𐰼⁚𐰨𐰀⁚𐰋𐰃𐰠𐰃𐰭𐰠𐰼⁚𐰓𐰏𐰇⁚𐰆𐰞- b¹us¹an¹nč:r¹a:mŋi:kl²mis²:t²ir²:nča:b²il²iŋl²r²:d²gü:ul¹
- /busanč:ara:meŋi:kelmiš:tér:anča:biliŋler:edgü:ol/
- Joy came in the midst of depression, it says. Know thus: (the omen) is good.
Derived terms
- 𐰢𐰭𐰃𐰠𐰀 (mŋil²a /meŋile-/, “to rejoice”)
- 𐰢𐰭𐰃𐰠𐰏 (mŋil²g /meŋilig/, “joyful”)
Further reading
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “beŋi:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 348b
- Orkun, Hüseyin Namık (1936) Eski Türk Yazıtları [Old Turkic Inscriptions] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 529) (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurmu Basımevi, published 1994
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*beŋi”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- Tekin, Talât (1993) “m(ä)ŋi”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 59b