тұйғы
Kazakh
Etymology
From *tuyğu (“feeling, sensation; instinct”), which appears to be a medieval innovation, derived from the verb *tuy- "to notice; to feel", earliest attested in Old Turkic and Old Uyghur in the meaning "to notice".
Cognate with Bashkir тойғо (toyğo, “sensation, instinct”), Uzbek tuygʻu (“sensation, instinct”), Uyghur تۇيغۇ (tuyghu, “sensation, instinct”), Turkmen duýgy (“sensation, feeling”), Turkish duygu (“sensation, feeling”), etc.
Noun
тұйғы • (tūiğy)
- (physical) feeling; sensation, perception
- (emotional) feeling or experience; the faculty of having such experience
- instinct