1 ımğa: ‘wild mountain goat’; an old word w. ending -ğa:. The spelling in Türkü seems to be amğa:, since Runic m ğ a: could hardly be read ımğa:. Became an early l.-w. in Mong. as imağa(n)/ima’a(n) ‘male (wild) goat’ (Kow. 309, Haltod 69); Mong. Plur. ima’at in xiii Secret History (Haenisch 82). On this word see Studies, p. 235 and also Shcherbak 118 and L. Bazin, ‘Noms de la “chèvre” en turc et en mongol’, in Studia Altaica, Festschrift für Nikolaus Poppe, Wiesbaden, 1957, pp. 28 ff., both of which contain minor errors, e.g. that the word originally had an initial y- which rests on no better evidence than a mis-spelling in the Vienna MS. of the KB. Survives apparently only in SW xx Anat. ima/ime SDD 789, 790, both of which seem to mean some kind of wild goat. Türkü viii passages in I N 8 and II E 31 have hitherto been read Amğa: Kurğan kışlap and Amğı: (error for Amğa:, the stone is chipped here) Kurğan kışladukda: ‘after spending the winter at Amğa Kurğan’. This is open to two objections: (1) in the only other early (Uyğ. viii) occurrence of kışla:- it is preceded by the Instr., Ötüken iri:n kışladım ‘I spent the winter north of the Ötüken’ Şu. E 7; (2) kurğan, ‘fort’ and the like, is not noted earlier than Kıp. xiii and Çağ. xv ff. The correct reading is prob. amğa:korıgın ‘at the hunting ground for wild goats reserved for the xağan’ (see korığ) prob. used as a place-name: viii ff. (a leopard and a stag went searching for game and grain) ortu: yérde: amğaka: sokuşmı:ş esri: amğa: yalım kaya:ka: ünüp barmı:ş ‘in the middle country they met a wild goat; the dappled wild goat climbed a bare rock and made off’ IrkB 49 (for kaya: cf. KB): Xak. xi KB kayada yorığlı bu ımğa teke ‘these mountain goats and ibexes ranging among the rocks’ (cannot escape you) 5373: xiv Muh. qabşu’l-cabal ‘wild mountain goat’ ı:mğa: Mel. 72, 10; Rif. 175 (mis-spelt, nūn for yā): Çağ. xv ff. ımğa: (spelt) buz-i kūhī ‘mountain goat’ San. 114v. 29; (yaman . . . and, in Mong., buz 337v. 4): Osm. xiv to xvi ime (or? ıma) ‘mountain goat’; in several texts TTS I 337; II 532; III 368; IV 421.