يات

Uyghur

Etymology

Inherited from Chagatai یات (yāt /⁠yat⁠/), from Proto-Common Turkic *yāt.[1][2] Cognates with Turkish yad, Karakhanid یاتْ (yat).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jɑt/

Adjective

يات • (yat)

  1. unknown, strange, different
    يات كۆرمەك ― yat körmek ― to view as strange

Derived terms

  • ياتسىنماق (yatsinmaq)
  • ياتلىق (yatliq)

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972), “1 ya:t (-d)”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 882
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*jāt”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Further reading

  • Schwarz, Henry G. (1992), An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN, page 775
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