𐰃𐰤𐰏𐰤

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ingen (“female camel”). Cognate with 𐰃𐰤𐰏𐰛 (ingek, “cow”).

Noun

𐰃𐰤𐰏𐰤 (ingen)

  1. female camel
    • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 5
      𐰇𐰼𐰇𐰭:𐰃𐰤𐰏𐰤𐰃:𐰉𐰆𐱃𐰆𐰞𐰀𐰢𐰃𐰾
      ürüŋ:ingeni:botulamïš
      ...his white female camel had just given birth to a colt.

Alternative forms

References
  • Tekin, Talât (1993) “ing(ä)n”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 55
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ingen”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 184
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*in-gek (/*ɨn-gak), *in-ken”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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