یوند
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- یونت (yunt)
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *yunt (“horse, mare”).[1] Cognate with Karakhanid يُنْدْ (yund, “horse”), Chagatai يونت (yunt, “horse”), Old Turkic 𐰖𐰆𐰣𐱃 (yunt, “mare”).
Noun
یوند • (yund)
- wild mare
Descendants
- Turkish: yont (dialectal)
References
- Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*junt”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “یوند”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2221