ʾkzyk

Old Uyghur

Etymology

Inherited from Common Turkic *egzig (“melody”). Cognate with Turkish ezgi.[1] Compare also Proto-Mongolic *egesig (“melody”),[1][2][3] a Turkic borrowing.

Noun

ʾkzyk (egzig)

  1. (music) melody
    Synonym: kwyk (kög)

References
  1. Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ezgi”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  2. Lessing, Ferdinand (1960), Mongolian-English Dictionary, London: University of California Press, page 292
  3. Sanžejev, G. D., Orlovskaja, M. N., Ševernina, Z. V. (2015) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ mongolʹskix jazykov: v 3 t. [Etymological dictionary of Mongolic languages: in 3 vols.] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 209
  • Wilkens, Jens (2021) “egzig”, in Handworterbuch des Altuigurischen, Göttingen: Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, page 102
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