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Old Turkic
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tegiŋ (“squirrel”). Cognate with Turkish değin, Uzbek tiyin, Bashkir тейен (teyen, “squirrel”), Yakut тииҥ (tiiñ, “squirrel”).
Noun
𐱅𐰘𐰭 (teyiŋ)
- squirrel
- 8th century CE, Bilge Khagan Inscription, N12
𐰚𐰇𐰚:𐱅𐰘𐰭𐰃𐰤:𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜𐰢𐰀:𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰣𐰢𐰀:𐰴𐰔𐰍𐰣𐰆:𐰋𐰃𐰼𐱅𐰢- kök:teyiŋin:türüküme:bodunuma:qazɣanu:bértim
- ...and blue squirrels I gained for my Turkic people.
References
- Tekin, Talât (1968) “täyäŋ”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 379
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “teyiŋ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 569
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*dEgiŋ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill