𐰴𐰖𐰀
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Old Turkic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *k(i)aya (“rock”). Cognate with Old Uyghur x’y’ (qaya), Turkish kaya, Uzbek qoya, Bashkir ҡая (qaya), Yakut хайа (qaya). Compare also Mongolian хад (xad), Proto-Samoyedic *koəjə (“mountain”).
Noun[edit]
𐰴𐰖𐰀 (qaya)
- rock
- 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 51
- 𐰖𐰽𐰞:𐰴𐰖𐰀:𐰖𐰖𐰞𐰍𐰢:𐰴𐰃𐰔𐰃𐰞:𐰴𐰖𐰀:𐰴𐰃𐰽𐰞𐰍𐰢:𐰆𐰞
- yašïl:qaya:yaylaɣïm:qïzïl:qaya:qïšlaɣïm:ol
- My summer quarters is a green rock and my winter quarters is a red rock.
- 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 51
References[edit]
- Tekin, Talât (1993) “k(a)ya”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 56
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kaya:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 674
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*K(i)aja”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill