𐱃𐰆𐰭𐰆𐰕

Inherited from Common Turkic *toŋuz (“pig”). Cognate with Khalaj tongquz, Turkish domuz, Uzbek toʻngʻiz, Bashkir дуңғыҙ (duñğıź).

𐱃𐰆𐰭𐰆𐰕 (toŋuz)

1. pig, boar

   Synonym: 𐰞𐰍𐰔𐰃𐰤‎ (laɣzïn)

   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 6

     ‏𐰑𐰍𐰞𐰃:𐱃𐰆𐰭𐰆𐰔𐰞𐰃:𐰀𐰺𐱃:𐰇𐰔𐰀:𐰽𐰆𐰸𐰽𐰢𐰃𐰾‎

     adïɣlï:toŋuzlï:art:üze:soqušmïš

     A bear and a boar met on a mountain pass.

• Tekin, Talât (1993), “toŋuz”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 65
• Clauson, Gerard (1972), “toŋuz”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 527
• Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*doŋuŕ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill