äçkü

Meaning:
goat

äçkü is the older and more widely attested Old Turkic form. Kaşgari also records Oghuz keçi “goat”; this early variant is continued by the modern Oghuz forms. The noun is generic “goat”, although where a separate term for the male is used it may refer specifically to a she-goat.

In modern languages

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Language Cognate
Turkmen geçi
Turkish (Azerbaijan) keçi
Turkish (Türkiye) keçi
Salar The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Gagauz keçi
Crimean eçki
Uyghur öçkä
Uzbek eçki
Kazakh eşki
Nogai eşki
Siberian Tatar itske
Kyrgyz eçki
Altai eçki
Alan eçki
Kumyk eçki
Tatar içke
Bashkir The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Tıva öşkü
Khakas öski
Sakha (Yakut, Dolgan) The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Khalaj əçkü
Chuvash kačaka

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Translations

German:
Ziege
Russian:
коза
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
keçi
Turkish (Türkiye):
keçi

  • Hendrik Boeschoten (2022) A dictionary of early middle Turkic s.v. äčkü
    äčkü 1. ‘goat’ (QT3, KA, MM, FZ) / ečkü (QA) / äčki (AH-qip, KT, BM) / ečki (TZ) / ečkä (TZ) / ekči (TZ) / käči (QT4, MA, AH, KT, TZmrg-tkm, BM, KD) / keči (QT4) / käčik (QT3–4); ečkä münüzi ‘carob’ (TZ) / käči buynuzï (BM, MG) / käči muynuzï (KD) / käči münüzi (TZ). äčkü 2. ‘he-goat’ / äčki (CCa); tiši äčki ‘goat’ (CCa)
  • Gerard Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish p. 24b
    eçkü: generic term for ‘goat’, but in some languages, since there are special words, koçŋa:r (q.v.), etc., for ‘ram’, specifically ‘female goat’. S.i.a.m.l.g. with wide variations in pronunciation; the earliest form was eçkü, and keçi: an Oğuz corruption which survives in the SW (Oğuz) languages, although eçki and işk survive in SW xx Anat. SDD 505, 799. Uyğ. viii ff. Civ. eçkü öti ‘the gall of a goat’ H I 24; eçkü, esp. in the phr. eçkü süti ‘goat’s milk’ is common in H II; (in a list of livestock) iki sağlık eçkü ‘two milch goats’ USp. 36, 2; bukanı eçküni (sic) ‘cattle and goats’ 68, 3: Xak. xi eçkü: al-‘anz ‘goat’ Kaş. I 128; four o.o.: Çağ. xv ff. üçkü (‘with -k-’) keçi Vel. 97 (quotn.); üçgü (so spelt) buz ‘goat’ San. 65v. 4 (quotn.): Oğuz xi keçi: al-mi‘zā ‘goats’ Kaş. III 219: Xwar. xiv eçkü Qutb 156 (içegü): Kom. xiv ‘(male) goat’ eçki CCI; Gr.: Kip./Tkm. xiii al-ma‘z mutlaqa(n) ‘goat’, generic term eçki: (sic), also called keçi: (sic) Hou. 15, 7: xiv eçki: (cim) al-mi‘zā İd. 9; keçi: (‘with -c-’) al-mi‘zā; and in Kıp. eçki: (‘with -ç-’) 79; al-ma‘iz ke:çi: (cim) Bul. 7, 13: xv al-ma‘z ekşi (in margin eçki, keçi) Tuh. 11a. 4; xarrūb ‘carob bean’ eşke münüzi 14a. 11; ma‘z eşki 37b. 10; al-ma‘iz keşi: Kav. 62, 1.
  • M Räsänen, I Kecskeméti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen p. 35
    mtü. äčkü ‘Ziege’, AH. Hts. čag. krm. kar.T. äčki id., kom. kmk. ečki, oir. tel. äčkä, blk. eχči, krč. ečki, ječki, kzk. eški, bar. ičkä, čag. öčki, kmd. öčkä, tar. šor. öškä, hak. öski, šor. üškü, sag. üskä id., KB. ökčä ‘Leithammel’, soj. öškü ‘домашняя коза’, s-uig. eske ‘коза одного года’
    ~ mo. (Poppe 63) ešige, išige ‘Zicklein’
    < *ečke
    Vgl. auch tü. käči, čuv. kaǯa-Ga id. 246a
    Onom.