𐰲𐰆𐰍𐰖
Çogay
Meaning:
Çoğay, a historical wooded mountain region
The runiform spelling leaves the first vowel unresolved: çoğay and çuğay are competing readings. The traditional identification with the Yin Mountains is disputed; recent analyses instead associate the place with Zongcai Mountain (總材山), around the present Shaanxi–Shanxi–Inner Mongolia border. The exact area remains uncertain.
The name’s etymology is disputed. Comparison with Ottoman çoğa / çoğay “shade, shady” is unproven. The direction and route of any borrowing involving Chinese Zongcai are also unsettled.
Examples
Translations
German:
Çoğay, ein historisches bewaldetes Gebirgsgebiet
Russian:
Чогай, историческая горно-лесная область
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
Çoğay, tarixi meşəlik dağlıq ərazi
Turkish (Türkiye):
Çoğay, tarihî ormanlık dağlık bölge
Bibliography 2
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Talat Tekin (1994) Tunyukuk Yazıtıp. 57, Sözlük, complete entry Çogayp. 57, Sözlük, complete entry Çogay
Çogay yer adı (Yin-Shan dağları)
ç. kuzin ... olurur ertimiz 7 -
Gerard Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkishpp. 412b–413a, complete entry çoğaypp. 412b–413a, complete entry çoğay
VU çoğay occurs only in a place-name. It is discussed at length in K. Czegledy, ‘Čoγay-quzï, Qara-qum, Kök-öng’ Acta Orient. Hung. XV 1–3, 1962, where it is suggested, on the basis of investigations of previous scholars, that it is a Common N./A. related to Osm. çoğa/çoğay ‘shade, shady’. This is possible, but, if so, it is odd that it is so poorly attested. ‘Shade’ is normally köli:ge:. Türkü viii berye: çoğay yış (PU) tüğültü:n yazı: konayın ‘let us settle down in the south in the Çoğay mountain forest and the Tügültün (q.v.) plain’ I S 6, II N 5; Çoğay kuzi:n kara: kumığ olurur ertimiz ‘we were established on the northern side of Çoğay and the Kara Kum’ T 7.
