𐰽𐰍

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *asïg (“profit”). Compare also Mongolian ашиг (ašig), a Turkic borrowing.

Noun

𐰽𐰍 (asïɣ)

  1. advantage, profit
    • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 32
      𐰨𐰀:𐰋𐰃𐰠𐰃𐰭𐰠𐰼:𐰽𐰍𐰃:𐰉𐰺:𐰓𐰏𐰇:𐰆𐰞
      anča:biliŋler:asïɣ:bar:edgü:ol
      Know thus: (The omen) has profit, it is good.

References
  • Tekin, Talât (1993) “(a)s(ı)g”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 48
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “asığ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 244
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*asɨg”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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