𐰢𐰃𐰏
ämig
Meaning:
breast, udder; nipple, teat
Word family
Formed from 𐰢- [äm-] “to suck (breast of women or animals)” using -(ı)g⁴ (nomen actionis).
The very common suffix -(ı)g4 forms nominals from verbs. Nominals derived from verbs with most formatives denote either the subject when the verb is intransitive and the object when the verb is transitive, or the action.
In modern languages (2 / 22)
Select a region to see the cognate.
| Language | Cognate |
|---|---|
| Turkmen | The cognate has disappeared from this language. |
| Turkish (Azerbaijan) | The cognate has disappeared from this language. |
| Turkish (Türkiye) | The cognate has disappeared from this language. |
| Salar | No cognate has been entered for this language yet. |
| Gagauz | The cognate has disappeared from this language. |
| Crimean | No cognate has been entered for this language yet. |
| Uyghur | The cognate has disappeared from this language. |
| Uzbek | The cognate has disappeared from this language. |
| Kazakh | The cognate has disappeared from this language. |
| Nogai | The cognate has disappeared from this language. |
| Siberian Tatar | No cognate has been entered for this language yet. |
| Kyrgyz | The cognate has disappeared from this language. |
| Altai | No cognate has been entered for this language yet. |
| Alan | No cognate has been entered for this language yet. |
| Kumyk | No cognate has been entered for this language yet. |
| Tatar | The cognate has disappeared from this language. |
| Bashkir | The cognate has disappeared from this language. |
| Tıva | emig |
| Khakas | No cognate has been entered for this language yet. |
| Sakha (Yakut, Dolgan) | emiy |
| Khalaj | No cognate has been entered for this language yet. |
| Chuvash | No cognate has been entered for this language yet. |
Examples
Translations
German:
Brust, Euter; Brustwarze, Zitze
Russian:
грудь, вымя; сосок
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
döş, məmə, əmzik
Turkish (Türkiye):
meme, meme başı
Bibliography 5
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Hendrik Boeschoten (2022) A dictionary of early middle Turkicp. 55a–bp. 55a–b
äm= ‘to suck’ (g.) / em= (QT₂, QT₅, QA, XŠ, TZ); süt emmiš qarïndaš ‘foster-brother’ (QA) | ämgü ‘foster-mother’ (QT₃ ar. مَراضِع-pl.) | ämčäk ‘nipple, female breast’ (g.) / emčäk (QA, CCa, TZ); ämčäk üti ‘aperture in nipple’ (IMa) | ämüg ‘female breast, nipple’ (QAt) / emüg (QAb,ba,t, NF) / ämig | ämügdäš ‘foster-brother’ (QAt, XŠ) / emügdäš (QA) / ämigdäš (TZ-misspelt with -l-, KD); süt emügdäšiñ ‘your foster-brother’ (QA) | ämdür= ‘to give suck’ (MAv, NF, QT₄, AH) / emdür= (QT₅) | ämdürül= ‘to be given suck’ (MAv) | ämgiz= ‘to give suck’ (IMb) | ämüz= ‘to give suck’ (QT₁–₃, KA, MO) / ämiz= (IMa) / emiz= (TZ 55r8) | ämüzgän ‘foster-mother’ (QT₁) | ämzük ‘feeding bottle’ (MG) | ämzülük ‘nipple’ (MAv) (< *äm-züglük) | ämzür= ‘to give suck’ (IM, NF, AH, KT) | emzirči ‘foster-mother’ (TZ) (< *ämzirgüči) -
Dr. Jens Wilkens (2021) Handwörterbuch des Altuigurischen | Eski Uygurcanın El Sözlüğüp. 106bp. 106b
ämig ~ (ä)mig Brust, Brüste || göğüs, meme
ämig ber- die Brust geben || meme vermek -
Sergei Starostin, Anna Dybo, Oleg Mudrak (2003) Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languagespp. 505–506pp. 505–506
*emV ( ~ *ami) to suck: Mong. *em-kü-; Turk. *em-.
PMong. *em-kü- to swallow, bite, chew (глотать, кусать, жевать): MMong. emgu-gu / omgu-gu 3 (SH); WMong. emkü- (L 313); Kh. ömxö-; Bur. ümxe-; Kalm. ümkə-; Ord. uŋku ‘bouchée’; Dag. unku-, umku-, enku- (Тод. Даг. 140); Mongr. uŋkwā ‘bouchée’ (SM 475); xaŋgu- (SM 157).
◊ KW 457.
PTurk. *em-ig, *em-ček 1 breast (fem.) 2 to suck 3 nipple (1 грудь (жен.) 2 сосать 3 сосок): OTurk. emig 1 (OUygh.); Karakh. ẹm- 2 (MK), ẹmig 1 (MK); Tur. em- 2, emǯik 1; Az. ämǯäk 3; Turkm. em- 2, emǯek 1; Khal. äm- 2; MTurk. ẹm- 2 (Pav. C.), emček 1 (Abush.); Uzb. emčak 1; Uygh. äm- 2, ämčäk 1; Tat. im- 2, imčɛk 1; Bashk. imsäk 1; Kirgh. emček 1; KKalp. emšek 1; Nogh. emšek 1; SUygh. emɨɣ 1; Khak. em- 2, imǯek 1; Tv. em- 2, emig 1; Tof. em- 2, emij ‘udder’; Chuv. əʷm- 2; Yak. em- 2, emīj 1; Dolg. emij 1.
◊ VEWT 41-2, EDT 158-9, ЭСТЯ 1, 271-272, Егоров 63, Лексика 273-274, Stachowski 45. PT *em-ig and *em-ček (the latter form is first attested in the 13th c.) are derived from *em- ‘to suck’.
‖ A Turko-Mongolian isogloss. One is tempted to suppose lost *p῾- and to unite this root with TM *pemu-, Jpn. *pàm- (see *pèma). This is, however, hardly possible, because both Middle Mongolian and Dagur have 0- here (while Mongor x- can easily be secondary in front of a voiceless stop). A possible solution would be a loss of *h- ( < *p῾-) in Proto-Mongolian (or even Proto-Turko-Mongolian) under the influence of a phonetically close “nursery” word, *ĕ̀me ‘mother, female’ q.v. -
Gerard Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkishpp. 158b–159app. 158b–159a
D emig Conc. N. fr. em-; ‘nipple, teat’ or more generally ‘breast, udder’; unlike yelin q.v., which is used only of animals, used both of human beings and animals. Survives only(?) in NE Tuv. emig R I 954; Pal. 582; SW Osm. emik ‘sucked (dry)’, etc. is a Dev. N./A. in -ük (Pass.) and a different word. Elsewhere displaced everywhere by emçek, Conc. N. in -çek which is first noted in xiii(?) Tef. 77 and thereafter in Muh., Çağ., Kom., Kip., and Osm., and s.i.a.m.l.g. Türkü viii ff. teglük kulun erkek yunt(t)a: emi:g tile:yü:r ‘a blind foal looks for an udder on a stallion’ IrkB 24: Uyğ. viii ff. Man. kazğuk teg kara boy emgi ‘her black coloured nipples like pegs’ M II 11, 18: keŋ yetiz kögüzinde iki emigi ‘her two breasts on her broad (Hend.) bosom’ U IV 30, 54-5: Civ. emig sışıp ağrısar ‘if the breasts swell and are painful’ H I 119, 196: Xak. xi emig al-tadā ‘the female breast’; also al-tunduwa ‘the (male) nipple’ Kaş. I 72: emig sordi: imtakka’l-darʿ ‘he sucked the udder’ II 70, 1; a.o. I 485, 23 (çur). -
M Räsänen, I Kecskeméti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachenpp. 41b–42app. 41b–42a
uig. äm, im ’saugen’, mtü. usw. äm, kaz. im, čuv. əm, öm (< *üm); Fakt. äm-it, äm-giz, äm-iz; uig. (Gab.) äm-ig, im-ig ’Brüste’, mtü. ämik, soj. ämig ’Brustwarze’, s-uig. em-yγ ’грудь’, koib. em-äj, jak. ämi ’титька’; šor. öm-čä, üm-čä ’Saugflasche für Kinder’; l-n. äm-čǡk, kmk. em-čǡk ’Mutterbrust’, kaz. im-čäk, jak. ämsäχ, ämisäχ, äminjäk; soj. em-is-kik ’рожок’; tel. um-čy, kč. umdja ’Saughorn’
~mo. (KWb. 457) em-kü, üm-kü ’einschlürfen, verschlingen’
~tu.: sol. imi ’trinken’, bargu. um, ma. omi
~finn. ime- usw. (Sauv. 125; UAW 41; Coll., Jukag. u. Ural. 77)
