тұйғы

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic تۇيعى
Cyrillic тұйғы
Latin tūiğy

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)

  1. (physical) feeling; sensation, perception
  2. (emotional) feeling or experience; the faculty of having such experience
  3. instinct