كوالج

Bulgar

Etymology

Acc. to Talât Tekin, reflexive of Bulgar كُوَج (küveç) (>*küveçil) but had metathesis. Acc. to Erdal, from Proto-Turkic *köĺč-, archaic form of Bulgar كُوَج (küeç). See Bulgar بلجِ (balči).

Verb

كوالج (küvelç)

  1. (Volga Bulgar) to migrate
    Synonym: كوج
    فان[ى] دنياران كوالجصن باقى اخرة بطوى ― Fânî dönyârân köwelçsan bâkî axirete ba(r)tuwi. ― He went to eternal afterlife while migrating from finite world.

Usage notes
  1. küweč- form was only attested with -rüwi (“past tense suffix”), and küwelč- form was only attested with -san (“verbal-adverb suffix”).

References
  • Tekin, Talât (1988) Volga Bulgar kitabeleri ve Volga Bulgarcası [Volga Bulgarian Ephitaphs and Volga Bulgarian Language]‎ (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, →ISBN, pages 26, 35, 96
  • Erdal, Marcel (1993) Die Sprache der wolgabolgarischen Inschriften (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, pages 121-122
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