Clauson (1972)
An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish
p. 294
D bıçğu:
Dev. N. (N.E.) fr. biç-; ‘saw’ or other cutting instrument. Survives in NE Alt., Leb. pışkı, Tuv. biski ‘a churn stick’, and in several NW and SW languages as bıçkı (and the like) ‘saw’. Uyğ. viii ff. bi bıçğu see 1 bi:; kılıçı biçgesi (sic) ‘swords and saws(?)’ Kuan. 27: Xak. xi (in a para. on the N.E.) bı:çğu: (sic) ism li-ālati’llatī yuqṭa‘ biha’l-şay’ ‘the word for an instrument with which something is cut’, derived fr. bı:ç- qaṭa‘a Kaş. I 13, 11; (in a similar para.) yığa:ç bıçğu: ‘the axe (al-fa’s) with which wood, etc., is cut’ II 69, 27; n.m.e.: xiii(?) Tef. bıçku ‘sword’ 105: Çağ. xv ff. bıçğı (spelt) arra ‘a saw’, in Ar. minşār San. 144r. 8: Xwar. xiv biçğü (sic) ‘saw’ Nahc. 11, 6-7: Kom. xiv ‘saw’ bıçkı; ‘scissors’ buçkı (sic) CCI; Gr.: Kıp. xiii al-minşār bıçku: Hou. 23, 15: xv ditto bışkı: (sic) Kav. 25, 9; bıçku Tuh. 34a. 3; 49a. 3.