sʾxyzxʾn

Old Uyghur

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *sagïzgan (“magpie”).[1] Cognate with Turkish saksağan, Uzbek zag‘izg‘on, Bashkir һайыҫҡан (hayıśqan), Tuvan сааскан (saaskan).

Noun

sʾxyzxʾn (saɣïzɣan)

  1. magpie

References
  1. Clauson, Gerard (1972) “sağızğa:n”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 818
  • Caferoğlu, Ahmet (1968) “saġızġan”, in Eski Uygur Türkçesi Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 260) (in Turkish), Istanbul: Edebiyat Fakültesi Basımevi, page 193
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