𐰍𐰕

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *āgïŕ (mouth). Cognate with Chuvash ҫӑвар (śăvar), Khalaj âğız, Turkish ağız (mouth), Uzbek ogʻiz, Bashkir ауыҙ (awıź), Tuvan аас (aas).

Noun

𐰍𐰕 (aɣïz)

  1. (anatomy) mouth

References

  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ağız”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 98
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Agɨŕ(*örüŋ)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill