𐰴𐰆𐰑𐰺𐰆𐰸
Old Turkic
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *kudruk (“tail”). Cognate with Karakhanid قُذْرُقْ (quδruq, “tail”), Turkish kuyruk (“tail”), Yakut кутурук (kuturuk, “tail”).
Noun
𐰴𐰆𐰑𐰺𐰆𐰸 (qudruq)
- tail of an animal.
References
- Clauson, Gerard (1972), “kuḏruk”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 604
- Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*Kudruk”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill