格兒該

Middle Mongol

Etymology

A derivation from Proto-Mongolic *ger (“yurt, house”). Compare also Proto-Mongolic *gerle- (“to marry”, literally “to house”).

Noun

格兒該 (gé-ér-gāi /gergei/)

  1. wife, married woman
    • c. 13th century, anonymous, Secret History of the Mongols 1a:
      格兒該 亦訥 豁埃 馬闌舌勒 阿只埃
      gé-ér-gāi yì-nè huò-āi mǎ-rán-lè ā-zhǐ-āi
      /gergei inü qo’ai maral aǰi’ai/
      His wife was a grey doe

Descendants

  • Central Mongolic:

Further reading

  • Haenisch, Erich (1939), Wörterbuch zu Mangḥol un Niuca Tobca’an (Yüan-Ch‘ao Pi-Shi) geheime Geschichte der Mongolen [Dictionary of the Secret History of the Mongols] (in German), Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz
  • Sanžejev, G. D.; Orlovskaja, M. N.; Ševernina, Z. V. (2016), Etimologičeskij slovarʹ mongolʹskix jazykov: v 3 t. [Etymological dictionary of Mongolic languages: in 3 vols.] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 43
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