Contributions To Uighur Lexicography II: Remarks on ČOG

Contributions To Uighur Lexicography II: Remarks on ČOG

Along their long history, Turkic languages got into contact with numerous other languages, amongst which was also Chinese. Many Chinese Buddhist works were translated into Uighur, and, as a matter of course, these translations activated loans in Uighur from Chinese. Several studies have dealt with t...

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Published in:Acta orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae Vol. 67; no. 2; pp. 151 - 162
Main Author: Ucar, Erdem
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Akadémiai Kiadó 01-06-2014
Academic Publishing House
Akademiai Kiado
Subjects:
Analysis
Buddhism
Coal
Comparative Linguistics
Dictionaries
Etymology
Flames
Historical Linguistics
Lexicography
Lexis
Loan words
Philology
Theoretical Linguistics
Turkic languages
Verbs
Vowels
Words
China
Turkey
etymology
Uighur
Chinese
Turkish–Chinese loan contacts
čog
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Summary:Along their long history, Turkic languages got into contact with numerous other languages, amongst which was also Chinese. Many Chinese Buddhist works were translated into Uighur, and, as a matter of course, these translations activated loans in Uighur from Chinese. Several studies have dealt with the Chinese loans in Uighur, and most of them regard Uighur čog ‘glowing heat, flame; splendour’ as a word of Chinese origin. The present paper carefully investigates the word čog and the words related to it in Old Turkic, and comes to the conclusion that the Chinese derivation of the word is not so obvious, since that explanation is aggravated by serious difficulties. Instead, on the basis of Turkic linguistic data, the author offers new ideas for explaining the Uighur word čog.
ISSN:0001-6446
1588-2667
DOI:10.1556/AOrient.67.2014.2.2