𐰉𐰆𐰕𐰍𐰆

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *buŕagu (“calf”). Cognate with Chuvash пӑру (păru), Turkish buzağı, Uzbek buzoq, Bashkir быҙау (bıźaw). Compare also Proto-Mongolic *biraxu, Hungarian borjú, Turkic borrowings.

Noun

𐰉𐰆𐰕𐰍𐰆 (buzaɣu)

  1. calf
    • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 41
      𐰇𐰼𐰇𐰭:𐰾𐰼𐰃:𐰃𐰼𐰚𐰚:𐰉𐰆𐰔𐰍𐰆:𐰚𐰠𐰇𐰼𐰢𐰃𐰾
      ürüŋ:esri:érkek:buzaɣu:kelürmiš
      (Nevertheless) she gave birth to a white-spotted bull calf.

Derived terms
  • 𐰉𐰆𐰕𐰀𐰍𐰆𐰞𐰀 (buzaɣula-)

References
  • Tekin, Talât (1993) “buz(a)gu”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 53
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “buza:ğu:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 391
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*buŕa-gu”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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