𐰖𐰖

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yāy (“summer; spring”). Cognate with Chuvash ҫулла (śulla), Azerbaijani yay (“summer”), Bashkir йәй (yəy), Yakut сайын (sayın).

Noun

𐰖𐰖 (yay)

1. summer
   • 8th century CE, Bilge Khagan Inscription, E39

     𐰖𐰞𐰉𐰲𐰃:𐰓𐰏𐰇:𐰽𐰉𐰃:𐰇𐱅𐰏𐰃:𐰚𐰠𐰢𐰔:𐱅𐰃𐰘𐰤:𐰖𐰖𐰣:𐰾𐰇𐰠𐰓𐰢

     yalbačï:edgü:sabï:ötügi:kelmez:téyin:yayïn:süledim

     Since their envoys, their good news and their blessings stopped coming to us, I went on a campaign in the summer.

Derived terms

• 𐰖𐰖𐰣 (yayïn, “during summer”)
• 𐰖𐰖𐰞𐰀 (yayla-, “to spend the summer”)
• 𐰖𐰖𐰞𐰍 (yaylaɣ, “summer quarters”)

See also

Seasons in Old Turkic (layout · text) · category
𐰖𐰔 (yaz, “spring”)	𐰖𐰖 (yay, “summer”)	𐰚𐰇𐰔 (küz, “autumn”)	𐰶𐰃𐱁 (qïš, “winter”)

References

• Tekin, Talât (1968) “yay”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 399
• Tekin, Talât (1993) “y(a)y”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 68
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ya:y”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 980
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jāj”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill