Clauson (1972)
An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish
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2 ta:ş (?d-)
‘stone’ in all the usual meanings of that word in English. S.i.a.m.l.g.; daş in NE Tuv.; SW Az., da:ş in Tkm., but consistently taş in Osm.; çul/çol in Çuv. (Ashmarin xv 220); a l.-w. in Pe., Doerfer II 855-7, where the question whether Mong. çilağun is a very early l.-w. fr. Turkish is discussed. Türkü viii taş occurs several times in the phr. beŋgü: taş ‘memorial stone’ I S 12, etc. and bitig taş ‘inscribed stone’ I N 13, etc. (e:t-); ıda: taşda: kalmışı: kuvranıp ‘those who remained in the scrub and stony desert(?) assembled’ T 4 (this is the likelier translation, but taşda: could mean ‘in foreign parts’): viii ff. the Toyok document (ETY II 57) describes the qualities of various monçu:knuŋ taşları:g ‘jewels and (precious) stones’: Yen. Kaşuk taş bal[balı:] ‘the stone balbal of Kaşuk’(?) Mal. 34 (a dubious inscription): Uyğ. viii bitiğim belgü:min anta: yası: taşka: yaratıtdım ‘I had my inscription and sign set up there on a smooth stone’ Şu. E 9-10: viii ff. Man.-A Man.-uig. Frag. 400, 9-10 (at-): Chr. U I 7, 16 (beşük): Bud. taş yerde ‘in stony places’ (or ‘foreign parts’) v.l. for öp yerde ‘in deserts’ TT VI 115: Civ. çıku taşın inçge sokup ‘pounding çıku: stone into fine (dust)’ TT I 172; taş ‘a stone counter’ is common in TT VIII L.; a.o. USp. 15, 2 (ögdün): O. Kır. ix ff. taşım bunta: tikti: (my people) ‘erected their (memorial) stone (to me) here’ Mal. 49, 4: Xak. xi ta:ş al-ḥacar ‘stone’ al-ḥacar ‘stone’ Kaş. III 152; nearly 30 o.o.: KB 212 (1 sa:y), 830 (korum): xiii(?) At. (can one count the number of grains in tall sand dunes or) uşak taş ‘small pebbles?’ 60; Tef. (he hit him on the head) taş birle ‘with a stone’ 290: xiv Muh. al-ṣaxr ‘rock’ ta:ş Mel. 75, 1; Rif. 178: Çağ. xv ff. taş taş . . . sang ma‘nāsına ‘stone’ Vel. 170 (quotn.); taş (1) sang San. 157r. 3; daş the same as taş sang 223v. 26; a.o. 126r. 18 (baka:): Xwar. xiv taş ditto MN 8: Kom. xiv ‘stone, rock, (jeweller’s) weight’ taş CCI, CCG; Gr.: Kıp. xiii al-ḥacar ta:ş Hou. 5, 16; 30, 7-8: xiv taş ditto İd. 63; ditto ta:ş Bul. 3, 9: xv ditto Kav. 56, 14; 58, 12; Tuh. 12b. 12: Osm. xv ff. taş ‘stone’; c.i.a.p. TTS I 683; III 674; IV 745.