تس

Karakhanid

Etymology

Inherited from Common Turkic *tas. Cognate with Turkish taslamak.

Adjective

تَسْ (tas)

bad, low quality
بُو اَتْ تَسْ تَكُلْ ― Bū at tas tegül. ― This horse isn't bad.

References

Clauson, Gerard (1972) “tas”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 554
Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 465

Further reading

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 I, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 329

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