𐰓𐰏𐰇

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *edgü (“good, excellent”). Cognate with Chuvash ырӑ (yră, “good”), Turkish iyi (“good”), Uzbek ezgu, Bashkir изге (izge, “holy, sacred”), Yakut үтүө (ütüö, “good”).

𐰓𐰏𐰇 (edgü)

1. good

   Antonyms: 𐰪𐰃𐰍 (ańïɣ), 𐰖𐰉𐰕 (yabïz), 𐰖𐰉𐰞𐰴 (yablaq)

   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 5

     𐰽𐰺𐰍:𐱃𐰞𐰍:𐰽𐰉𐰲𐰃:𐰖𐰔𐰍:𐱃𐰞𐰍:𐰖𐰞𐰉𐰲:𐰓𐰏𐰇:𐰾𐰇𐰔:𐰽𐰉:𐰠𐱅𐰃:𐰚𐰠𐰃𐰼:𐱅𐰃𐰼

     sarïɣ:atlïɣ:sabčï:yazïɣ:atlïɣ:yalbač:edgü:söz:sab:elti:kelir:tér

     There comes a messenger on a yellow horse (and) an envoy on a dark brown horse, bringing good tidings, it says.

• 𐰓𐰏𐰇𐱅𐰃 (edgüti, “very well”)

• Tekin, Talât (1968) “ädgü”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 324
• Tekin, Talât (1993) “(ä)dgü”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 53
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “edgü”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 51
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ed”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill