𐰖𐰍𐰃

Old Turkic

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yagï (“enemy, war”). Cognate with Karakhanid يَغٖى‎ (yaɣï̄, “enemy”), Kazakh жау (jaw, “enemy”), Khakas чаа (çaa, “war”), Ottoman Turkish ياغی‎ (yağı, “stranger, enemy”).

Noun

𐰖𐰍𐰃 (yaɣï)

  1. enemy, hostile

References
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972), “yağı:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 898
  • Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*jagɨ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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