Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/idrig

This Proto-Turkic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Turkic

Etymology

Although Nişanyan suggests that it comes from the Proto-Turkic *ẹ̄rig by comparing it with Karakhanid اَرِكْ (érig, “lively”), seems unlikely considering the Arghu descendant. Clauson proposes the root *idir-, however it is unattested.

Adjective

*idrig

tough, hard

Descendants

Common Turkic:

→ Hungarian: öreg(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)
Arghu: اِذْرِكْ (iḏrig)
Oghuz:
- Old Anatolian Turkish:
  - Azerbaijani: iri
  - Gagauz: iiri
  - Ottoman Turkish: ايرى
    - Turkish: iri
- Salar: yiri
- Turkmen: īri
Karluk:
- Karakhanid: اِرِكْ (irig)
  - Chagatai:
    - Uyghur: ژىرىك (zhirik), [script needed] (yirik)
    - Uzbek: yirik
Kipchak:
- North Kipchak:
  - Bashkir: эре (ere)
  - Tatar: эре (ere)
- West Kipchak:
  - Karaim: [script needed] (iri)
- South Kipchak:
  - Caspian:
    - Karakalpak: [script needed] (iri)
    - Kazakh: ірі (ırı)
    - Nogai: [script needed] (iri)
  - Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
    - Kyrgyz: ири (iri)

References

al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074), Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume 1, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, pages 71, 102
Clauson, Gerard (1972), “idrig, irig”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 65, 222
Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*Ērig”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “iri”, in Nişanyan Sözlük