𐱃𐰃𐰺𐰭𐰴

From Proto-Turkic *dïrŋa-k (“fingernail, claw”). Cognate with Karakhanid تِرْنْكاقْ‎ (tïrŋaq, “fingernail”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (tïrŋaq, “fingernail”), Bashkir тырнаҡ (tïrnaq, “fingernail”), Turkish tırnak (“fingernail”), Turkmen dyrnak (“fingernail”), Tuvan дыргак (dırgak, “fingernail”), Yakut тыҥырах (tıŋırax, “nail, claw”).

𐱃𐰃𐰺𐰭𐰴 (tïrŋaq)

1. nail, fingernail

• Clauson, Gerard (1972), “tırŋaq”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 551
• Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “dɨrŋa-k”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill