𐰃𐰤𐰏𐰛

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ingek (“cow”). Cognate with Chuvash ӗне (ĕne), Turkish inek (“cow”), Uyghur ئىنەك‎ (inek), Yakut ынах (ınaq). Compare also Mongolian үнээ (ünee), Hungarian ünő, Turkic borrowings.

𐰃𐰤𐰏𐰛 (ingek)

1. cow
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 5

     ‏𐰇𐰼𐰇𐰭:𐰾𐰼𐰃:𐰃𐰤𐰏𐰚:𐰉𐰆𐰔𐰀𐰍𐰆𐰞𐰲𐰃:𐰉𐰆𐰞𐰢𐰃𐰾‎

     ürüŋ:esri:ingek:buzaɣulačï:bolmïš

     A white-spotted cow was on the point of calving.

• 𐰉𐰆𐰕𐰍𐰆‎ (buzaɣu)
• 𐰈𐰛𐰈𐰕‎ (öküz)
• 𐰉𐰆𐰸𐰀‎ (buqa)
• 𐰃𐰤𐰏𐰤‎ (ingen)

• Tekin, Talât (1968), “in(i)gäk”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 336
• Tekin, Talât (1993), “ing(ä)k”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 55
• Clauson, Gerard (1972), “ingek”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 184
• Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*in-gek (/*ɨn-gak), *in-ken”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill