A Word from Old Uyghur to the Present: Al?g

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ACTA ORIENTALIA ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARUM HUNGARICAE, cilt.75, sa.3, ss.391-404, 2022 (AHCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 75 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2022
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1556/062.2022.00202
  • Dergi Adı: ACTA ORIENTALIA ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARUM HUNGARICAE
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Scopus, IBZ Online, Periodicals Index Online, L'Année philologique, Historical Abstracts, Index Islamicus, Linguistic Bibliography, MLA - Modern Language Association Database
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.391-404
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Old Uyghur, Old Turkic, al?g, etymology
  • Marmara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

In this study, we examine the etymology of the the word alig, which has appeared in various Turkic lan-guages starting with Old Uyghur. Researchers have so far put forth different theories regarding the origins of this word, which survives today in different parts of the Turkic-speaking world with various phonetic and semantic changes. Some have associated it with al-'to take' ('almak') (< al-i-g), which is semantically problematic, or with hypothetical roots which they reconstruct variously as *al (< al+ig), *al-or *ali-. Con-sidering earlier proposals, we narrow down the set of possible etymologies for alig in accordance with their relative merits.