ئۇي

Uyghur

Etymology

Inherited from Chagatai اوی (uy), from Khorezmian Turkic اوذ (ʾwḏ /⁠⁠uḏ, ūḏ⁠⁠/), from Karakhanid اُوذْ (ʾūḏ /⁠ūḏ⁠⁠/) / 𐽰𐽳𐽸 (ʾwd /⁠⁠ūḏ⁠⁠/), from Proto-Turkic *ūd.[1][2] Cognates with Ottoman Turkish اوط (oṭ, od), Kyrgyz and Southern Altai уй (uy).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔuj/

Noun

ئۇي • (uy) (plural ئۇيلار (uylar))

  1. farm cattle

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972), “u:ḏ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 34
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*ud”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Further reading

  • Schwarz, Henry G. (1992), An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN
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