< Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic
Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/čï̄gań
Proto-Turkic
Etymology
Perhaps borrowed from Byzantine Greek [Term?], related to Greek τσιγγάνος (tsingános).
Adjective
*čï̄gań
- poor
Descendants
- Arghu: جِغانْ (čïğān)
- → Old Anatolian Turkish: جغان (cığan)
- Ottoman Turkish: جغان (cığan), جغانلق (cığanlık)
- Turkish: cığan (dial.)[1]
- Ottoman Turkish: جغان (cığan), جغانلق (cığanlık)
- → Kipchak: [script needed] (čïğan) (сыған can not be a descendant of čïğan)
- → Old Anatolian Turkish: جغان (cığan)
- Oghuz:
- Turkish: çığay (dial.)[2]
- Karluk:
- Karakhanid: جيٖغاى (čï̄ğāy)
- Khorezmian Turkic: [script needed] (čïğay), [script needed] (čïğaylïq)
- Chagatai: [script needed] (čïğay)
- Khorezmian Turkic: [script needed] (čïğay), [script needed] (čïğaylïq)
- Karakhanid: جيٖغاى (čï̄ğāy)
- Siberian:
- Old Turkic: 𐰲𐰃𐰍𐰪 (čiǧń /čïgań/) (Yakut сыгаан (sıgaan) can not be a descendant of čïgań)
- Old Uyghur: [script needed] (čïgay)
- South Siberian:
- Yenisei:
- Khakas: [script needed] (sāy, “mischief”)
- Shor: [script needed] (šāy, “mischief”)
- Yenisei:
- Old Turkic: 𐰲𐰃𐰍𐰪 (čiǧń /čïgań/) (Yakut сыгаан (sıgaan) can not be a descendant of čïgań)
References
- “cığan”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), volume 3, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1968
- “cığan”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), volume 3, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1968
- Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*čɨ̄gań”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074), Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), volume I, 1985 edition, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 31
- Yıldız, H. (2007). Türkçede Çingeneler İçin Kullanılan Kelimeler ve Bunların Etimolojileri. Dil Araştırmaları, 1(1), 61-82.