𐰖𐰍𐰃
Old Turkic
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *yagï (“enemy, war”). Cognate with Karakhanid يَغٖى (yaɣï̄, “enemy”), Kazakh жау (jau, “enemy”), Khakas чаа (çaa, “war”), Ottoman Turkish یاغی (yağı, “stranger, enemy”).
Noun
𐰖𐰍𐰃 (yaɣï)
- enemy, hostile
References
- Clauson, Gerard (1972), “yağı:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 898
- Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*jagɨ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill