𐰍𐰕

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *āgïŕ (“mouth”). Cognate with Chuvash ҫӑвар (śăvar), Khalaj âğız, Turkish ağız (“mouth”), Uzbek ogʻiz, Bashkir ауыҙ (awıź), Tuvan аас (aas).

Noun

𐰍𐰕 (aɣïz)

(anatomy) mouth
- 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 27
  ‏𐰋𐰇𐰼𐰃:𐰍𐰔𐰃:𐰢𐰾𐰃𐰢𐰃𐰾‎
  böri:aɣzï:emsimiš
  The wolf's mouth got poisonous.

References

Tekin, Talât (1993), “(a)g(ı)z”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 47
Clauson, Gerard (1972), “ağız”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 98
Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*Agɨŕ(*örüŋ)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

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