𐰖𐰖
Old Turkic
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yāy (“summer; spring”). Cognate with Chuvash ҫулла (śulla), Azerbaijani yay (“summer”), Bashkir йәй (yəy), Yakut сайын (sayın).
Noun
𐰖𐰖 (yay)
- summer
- 8th century CE, Bilge Khagan Inscription, E39
- 𐰖𐰞𐰉𐰲𐰃:𐰓𐰏𐰇:𐰽𐰉𐰃:𐰇𐱅𐰏𐰃:𐰚𐰠𐰢𐰔:𐱅𐰃𐰘𐰤:𐰖𐰖𐰣:𐰾𐰇𐰠𐰓𐰢
- yalbačï:edgü:sabï:ötügi:kelmez:téyin:yayïn:süledim
- Since their envoys, their good news and their blessings stopped coming to us, I went on a campaign in the summer.
- 8th century CE, Bilge Khagan Inscription, E39
Derived terms
- 𐰖𐰖𐰣 (yayïn, “during summer”)
- 𐰖𐰖𐰞𐰀 (yayla-, “to spend the summer”)
- 𐰖𐰖𐰞𐰍 (yaylaɣ, “summer quarters”)
See also
| Seasons in Old Turkic (layout · text) · category | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 𐰖𐰔 (yaz, “spring”) | 𐰖𐰖 (yay, “summer”) | 𐰚𐰇𐰔 (küz, “autumn”) | 𐰶𐰃𐱁 (qïš, “winter”) |
References
- Tekin, Talât (1968) “yay”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 399
- Tekin, Talât (1993) “y(a)y”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 68
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ya:y”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 980
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jāj”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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