𐱅𐰏𐰠𐰝

täglük

Meaning:

blind

Details:

Derived from tägil- (to be touched), which in the context of eyes means “to be blinded”; cf. tägilmiš közler “blinded eyes” or täglük közlüg “a blind-eyed man”. Modern Turkic languages use for “blind” either the Persian loanword kür — or Mongolian sokor, or else a periphrastic expression.

Words with the same root:

𐱅𐰏- [täg-] 𐱅𐰏𐰃 [tägi] 𐱅𐰏𐰠- [tägil-]

In modern languages

Select a region to see the cognate.

Language	Cognate
Turkmen	-
Turkish (Azerbaijan)	-
Turkish (Türkiye)	-
Salar	-
Gagauz	-
Crimean	-
Uyghur	-
Uzbek	-
Kazakh	-
Nogai	-
Siberian Tatar	-
Kyrgyz	-
Altai	-
Alan	-
Kumyk	-
Tatar	-
Bashkir	-
Tıva	-
Khakas	-
Sakha (Yakut, Dolgan)	-
Khalaj	-
Chuvash	-

Examples

Irıq Bitig

Translations

German:

blind

Russian:

слепой

Turkish (Azerbaijan):

kor

Turkish (Türkiye):

kör

Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish p. 480-481

D teglük (d-) contracted Pass. Dev. N./A. fr. tegil-, q.v.; ‘blind’. N.o.a.b.; modern languages use for ‘blind’ either the Pe. l.-w. kǖr (in Turkish kör) or Mong. sokor or a periphrasis. Türkü viii ff. IrkB 24 (emig): Uyğ. viii ff. Man.-A (they curse one another saying) teglük teg ‘(you are) like a blind man’ M I 9, 15: Man. közsüz teglük ‘blind (Hend.)’ M I 18, 6 (i); a.o. TT III 89: Chr. teglük M III 49, 3: Bud. tuğa teglük ‘born blind’ U II 29, 14, etc. (tuğ-): Civ. teglük bolur TT VII 33, 11: Xak. xi teglük al-ḍarīr ‘blind’; hence one says teglük közlüg ‘a blind man’ Kaş. I 47₇ (misvocalized tüglük): Kom. xiv ‘blind’ towluk CCI; Gr.: Kıp. xiii al-a‘mā ‘blind’ (közsüz; and one says) tewlük Hou. 26, 8: xiv (under ta with lam) tü:lük al-a‘mā İd. 4; (?misunderstanding of tewlük or towluk?).