Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/edgü

This Proto-Turkic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Turkic

Etymology

From *ed (“thing, goods”).

Adjective

*edgü

good

Derived terms

*edgü-lük
*edgü-ti
*epedgü

Descendants

Oghur:
- Chuvash: ырӑ (yră, “good”)
Common Turkic:

Medieval:
- Karakhanid: اَذْكُو‎ (eδgǖ), [script needed] (eygü), [script needed] (ezgü)
  - Khorezmian: [script needed] (eδgü), [script needed] (eygü)
  - → Turki:
    - → Bashkir: изге (izge)
    - → Kazakh: ізгі (ızgı)
    - → Tatar: изге (izge)
    - → Uyghur: ئەزگۇ‎ (ezgu)
    - → Uzbek: ezgu
Kipchak:
- Kipchak: [script needed] (eygi)
- North Kipchak:
  - Bashkir: эйе (eye, “yes”), иге (ige, “good”)
  - Tatar: иге (ige)
- South Kipchak:
  - Caspian:
    - Kazakh: игі (igı)
  - Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
    - Kyrgyz: ийги (iygi)
    - Southern Altai: эйе (eye, “yes”)
Oghuz:
- Old Anatolian Turkish: [script needed] (eygü)
  - Azerbaijani: eyi
  - Ottoman Turkish: ایو‎ (eyü)
    - Turkish: iyi
- Salar: ī
Siberian:
- Old Turkic:
  - Old Turkic: 𐰓𐰏𐰇‎ (edgü)
  - Old Uyghur: 'dkw (edgü)
- North Siberian:
  - Dolgan: үтүө (ütüö)
  - Yakut: үтүө (ütüö)
- South Siberian:
  - Tuvan: эки (eki, “good”)

References

Clauson, Gerard (1972), “eḏgü:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 51
Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*ed, *ed-gü”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill