قاز

kāz

Meaning:
goose

The first vowel was long; this is independently supported by Turkmen gāz and Sakha xās. Chuvash xur shows the regular Oghur r corresponding to Common Turkic z, supporting reconstruction of the final consonant as *ŕ at the deeper Proto-Turkic level.

The deeper etymology is disputed.

Kāšγarī glosses qāz as “duck” and ördäk as “goose”; Clauson treats this as a reversal of the glosses in view of the broader Turkic evidence.

In modern languages

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Language Cognate
Turkmen gaz
Turkish (Azerbaijan) qaz
Turkish (Türkiye) kaz
Salar qaz
Gagauz kaaz
Crimean qaz
Uyghur ğaz
Uzbek ğoz
Kazakh qaz
Nogai kaz
Siberian Tatar qas
Kyrgyz kaz
Altai kas
Alan qaz
Kumyk qaz
Tatar qaz
Bashkir qaḏ
Tıva kas
Khakas xas
Sakha (Yakut, Dolgan) xās
Khalaj The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Chuvash xur

Examples

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Translations

German:
Gans
Russian:
гусь
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
qaz
Turkish (Türkiye):
kaz

  • Dr. Jens Wilkens (2021) Handwörterbuch des Altuigurischen: Altuigurisch – Deutsch – Türkisch | Eski Uygurcanın El Sözlüğü: Eski Uygurca – Almanca – Türkçe p. 351
    1 kaz Gans || kaz
    kaz hanı König der Gänse || kazların hükümdarı, kaz kralı
    kaz ödräk aŋıt Gans, Ente und Rostgans || kaz, ördek, angut
    kaz ünlüg mit Gänsestimme (Übersetzung von Skt. haṃsasvara; Name eines Prinzen) || kaz sesli (Skt. haṃsasvara’nın çevirisi; bir prensin adı)
    kaz üri (br) → kaz üyüri
    kaz üyüri Gänsekorn, weißer Senf (Sinapis glauca, Roxb.) || kaz tahılı, beyaz hardal (Sinapis glauca, Roxb.)
    kaz üyüri ävini Senfkorn || hardal tahılı, hardal tanesi
    kaz yüri (br) → kaz üyüri
    kazlar hanı König der Gänse || kazların hükümdarı
  • Gerard Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish p. 679a–b
    ?F 1 ka:z ‘goose’. S.i.a.m.l.g.; Kaş. consistently translates 1 ka:z al-baṭṭ ‘duck’ and ördek al-iwazz ‘goose’, but this must be an error. The word is generic, particular species being identified by preceding qualifying words. Almost certainly an early l.-w. fr. some Indo-European language, prob. Tokharian, cf. Sanskrit haṃsa, Old English gōs, German Gans. L.-w. in Pe., etc., Doerfer III 1389. Uyğ. VIII ff. Bud. kazlar begige oxşatı ‘like the leader of (a flight of) geese’ TT X 133; a.o. do. 160 (tizig); o.o. Pfahl. 6, 6 etc. (üyür, q.v.); Suv. 4, 12 (ördek): Civ. TT VIII M.25 (üyür): Xak. XI ka:z al-baṭṭ (see above) Kaş. III 149; about a dozen o.o.: KB kaz ‘geese’ (ducks, swans, and swallows) 72: XIV Muh. (under ‘water birds’) al-baṭṭ wa’l-iwazz ka:z Mel. 73, 5; Rif. 176: Kom. XIV ‘goose’ kaz CCI; Gr.: Kip. XIII al-iwazz ka:z Hou. 10, 5: XIV kaz al-wazz (sic, Sec. f. of iwazz) İd. 71; karaca: ka:z al-lağlağ (according to the Kāmūs not the same as al-laqlaq ‘stork’, but not further specified) do. 70; ditto (both entries) Bul. 11, 11: XV al-iwazz ka:z Kav. 39, 4; 62, 12; Tuh. 4b. 11 (and töpe kaz).
  • M Räsänen, I Kecskeméti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen p. 243a
    *kāz (< *kāŕ): mtü. kāz ‘Gans’, trkm. kāz ‘гусь’, uig. čag. usw. kaz, jak. χās, tob. oir. usw. kas, čuv. χor, χur id.
    ~ ma. (Poppe 120) garu (< *kāra-gū) ‘Schwan’ ~ tu. (Vas.) gāre ‘филин’, ‘сова’, ‘большой серый лебедь’