𐰘𐰃𐰏

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yẹg. Cognate with Chuvash ҫи (śi), Azerbaijani yey, Turkish yeğ.

𐰘𐰃𐰏 (yég)

1. good, better
   • 8th century CE, Kültegin Inscription, S4

     𐰇𐱅𐰜𐰤:𐰘𐰃𐱁𐰑𐰀:𐰘𐰃𐰏:𐰃𐰓𐰃:𐰖𐰸:𐰼𐰢𐱁

     ötüken:yїšda:yég:idi:yoq:ermiš

     There were no better lords in the Ötüken Mountains.

• 𐰘𐰏𐰓𐰃 (yégdi, “much better”)

• Tekin, Talât (1968) “yeg”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 401
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yég”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 909
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jẹg-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill