𐱅𐰏-

täg-

Meaning:
to come into contact, to touch, to reach; to be worth
Details:
Properly ‘to reach (a place Dat.)’ but with various extended meanings from an early date, including ‘to attack (someone), to touch (something), to concern (someone), to be worth (i.e. to reach a price of, so much)’.

Word family

In modern languages

Select a region to see the cognate.
Language Cognate
Turkmen deg
Turkish (Azerbaijan) dəy
Turkish (Türkiye) değ
Salar -
Gagauz dii
Crimean tiy
Uyghur teg
Uzbek teg
Kazakh tiy
Nogai -
Siberian Tatar -
Kyrgyz tiy
Altai tiy
Alan -
Kumyk tiy
Tatar tiy
Bashkir -
Tıva de
Khakas -
Sakha (Yakut, Dolgan) -
Khalaj -
Chuvash tiv

Examples

Translations

German:
in Kontakt kommen, berühren, erreichen; wert sein
Russian:
вступать в контакт, касаться, дотягиваться; стоить
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
dəymək
Turkish (Türkiye):
değmek
  • Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish p. 476
    teg- (d-) properly ‘to reach (a place Dat.)’ but with various extended meanings from an early date, including ‘to attack (someone), to touch (something), to concern (someone), to be worth (i.e. to reach a price of, so much)’. S.i.a.m.l.g., in NC, NW generally tiy-; in NW Krım; SW Az., Osm. deg-; Tkm. deg-. Türkü viii teg- occurs over 30 times meaning either (1) ‘to attack’ e.g. Kül Tegin yadağın oplayu: tegdi: ‘Kül Tegin attacked on foot gasping’ I E 32, or (2) ‘to reach’ e.g. (I campaigned in the Shantung plain and) talu:yka: kiçig tegmedim ‘only just failed to reach the sea’ I S 2; similar phr. I S 3, II N 3: viii ff. üze: teŋri:ke: tegi:r ‘it reaches the sky above’ IrkB 20; o.o. do. 39 (yidit-); Toyok 24-5 (1 u:ç): Man. (if our prayers and praises) teŋrike tegmedi erser Chuas. 216-17; o.o. do. 200 (bu:g); M I 7, 19 (toş): Yen. yağ[ı:ka:] tegmiş ‘when he attacked the enemy’ Mal. 26, 8; a.o. 28, 8: Uyğ. ix (my fame and reputation) tegdi: ‘reached’ (the sunrise and sunset) Suci 5: viii ff. Man. tulumluğ (?so read, MS. tonumluğ with tail of -l- omitted) tegir ‘the armed man attacks’ M II 11, 12: Bud. teg- ‘to reach, attain’ is common, e.g. ertinilig otruğka tegdiler ‘they reached the island of jewels’ PP 33, 7-8: Civ. ditto e.g. edgüke tegir ‘he attains goodness’ TT VII 28, 47; (let my wife, after I am dead) erke begke tegmedin ‘not marry again’ (but keep my house and look after my son Aitmiş Kaya. If my sons Kosag and Esen Kaya say) ögey anamız bizke teğir alırbiz ‘our step-mother belongs to us, we will take her’ USp. 78, 5-9 (text revised by Arat); a.o. do. 116, 17 (ağır): Xak. xi ol evke: tegdi: ‘he reached (balağa) the house’ (etc.) Kaş. II 19 (tegi:r, tegme:k; prov., verse, aza:k); I 48 (1 ok) and about 20 o.o.: KB ajun ençke tegdi: ‘the world has attained peace’ 103; (a wise, understanding man) tilekke tegir ‘achieves his desires’ 155-9; (one is the Secretary, the other the Minister) bu iki kişike söz ayma:k tegir ‘it is the duty of these two people to express their views’ 2679; o.o. 263, 713, etc.: xiii(?) At. bu kün tegsü mendin dürūd ‘let my praise reach (the Prophet) today’ 29; a.o.o.; Tef. teg- ‘to reach’, etc. 292: xiv Muh. aṣāba ‘to attain’ deg- Mel. 22, 14 (Rif. 103 degür-); waṣala ‘to reach’ teg- 32, 3 (misvocalized tüke-); 116 (-g- marked); 132: Çağ. xv ff. teg- (so spelt) (1) ‘to hit’ (xwurdan) of one thing like an arrow, stone or blow hitting another; (2) ‘to reach’ (rasīdan); (3) ‘to be worth’ (arzīdan) San. 195v. 7 (quotns.): Xwar. xiii teg- ‘to reach’ ‘Ali 38; deg- ‘to be worth, to cost’ do. 57: xiii(?) teg- ‘to reach’ Oğ. 319: xiv ditto Qutb 177; MN 91: Kom. xiv teg-/tey- ‘to reach, touch’ CCI, CCG; ‘to be worth’ CCI; Gr. 238 (quotns.): Kıp. xiv deg- waṣala İd. 49; Bul. 88r.: xv massa ‘to touch’ tey- Kav. 10, 1; ṣāba ‘to hit (a target, etc.)’ (uruş- and) tey- Tuh. 22b. 13: Osm. xiv deg- ‘to reach’, etc.; c.i.a.p. TTS I 187; II 268-9; III 174; IV 198.
  • Tekin (1965) A grammar of Orkhon Turkic
    to come into contact, touch, reach; attack