𐰽𐰃𐰍𐰆𐰣

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *sïgun (“elk, moose”). Cognate withTurkish sığın (“moose”), Uzbek suygun, Southern Altai суун (suun), Tuvan сыын (sıın, “maral”).

𐰽𐰃𐰍𐰆𐰣 (sïɣun)

1. a kind of male deer; moose, elk, maral

   Synonym: 𐰚𐰃𐰘𐰃𐰚‎ (kéyik)

   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 60

     ‏𐱃𐰆𐰸𐰆𐰔:𐰺𐰞𐰃:𐰽𐰃𐰍𐰆𐰣:𐰚𐰃𐰘𐰃𐰚:𐰢𐰤‎

     toquz:aralï:sïɣun:kéyik:men

     I am a male maral deer with a nine-branched horn.

• Tekin, Talât (1968), “siγun”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 368
• Tekin, Talât (1993), “sıgun”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 62
• Clauson, Gerard (1972), “sı:ğun”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 811
• Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*sɨg-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill