اورنك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Perhaps a derivation from Proto-Turkic *ȫr-, *ör- or some metathesized derivation of *ög-, *ögre-. Compare Kazakh өрнек (örnek), Uzbek o'rnak, Uyghur ئۆرنەك‎ (örnek), Tatar үрнәк (ürnäk) (all from Chagatai?).

According to Budagov, borrowed from Middle Armenian օրինակ (ōrinak), from Old Armenian օրինակ (ōrinak, “example”).[1][2], which is called into question by Sevortyan[3] and rejected by Lewis [4].

Origin from گورمك‎ (görmek, “to see”) has also been suggested,[5] but such a formation is unusual in Turkic, and the drop of g- would remain unexplained.[2][6]

Noun

اورنك • (örnek)

example, model
moral (of story), lesson

Descendants

Turkish: örnek
→ Albanian: yrnek
→ Bulgarian: юрнек (jurnek)
→ Laz: ორნეღი (orneği)
→ Northern Kurdish: ornek
→ Greek: ορνέκι (ornéki)
→ Serbo-Croatian: урнек/urnek

References

Budagov, Lazarʹ (1869) Sravnitelʹnyj slovarʹ turecko-tatarskix narěčij [Comparative Dictionary of Turko-Tatar Dialects] (in Russian), volume I, Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 127
Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), “օրինակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 619a
Sevortjan, E. V. (1974) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages]‎ (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Nauka, pages 549-550
Lewis, Geoffrey (1999) The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, page 120
Vámbéry, Ármin (1878) Etymologisches Wörterbuch der Turko-tatarischen Sprachen, Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, page 78
Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, pages 169–170