Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/tïgrak

This Proto-Turkic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Turkic

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *tïgra- (“to be tough”) +‎ *-k.

Adjective

*tïgrak

firm, tough (person)

Descendants

Siberian:
- Old Turkic: [script needed] (tïğraq)
  - Old Uyghur: [script needed] (tïğraq)
Karluk:
- Karakhanid: تِغْراقْ (tïğrāq)
→ Proto-Mongolic: *čixirag

References

Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Tɨgra- / *Tɨgɨŕ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 471, 472

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