اشق

Early Old Oghuz

Etymology

Clauson suggests that its an corruption of Proto-Turkic *alčak.^[1]

Noun

اَشَقْ (ašak)

foot of a mountain

Descendants

Old Anatolian Turkish: اشاق
- Classical Azerbaijani:
  - Qashqai: آشّاق (aşşaq)
Salar: aşaq (“low”)
Turkmen: aşāk (“low”)
→ Kipchak: [script needed] (aşaq)
⇒ Proto-Oghuz: *ašākga (“below, dative of low”)
- Classical Azerbaijani:
  - Azerbaijani: aşağı, aşağa
  - Qashqai: آشّاغى, آشّاغا
- Gagauz: aşaa
- Ottoman Turkish: اشاغه
  - Turkish: aşağı
  - → Crimean Tatar: aşağa
- → Kipchak: [script needed] (aşağa)
  - North Kipchak:
    - Bashkir: әшәке (əşəke)
    - Tatar: әшәке (äşäke)
⇒ Proto-Oghuz: *اَشقْلاماقْ (ašāklamaq, “to underestimate”)^[2]
- Azerbaijani: aşağılamaq
- Gagauz: aşaalamaa
- Ottoman Turkish:
  - Turkish: aşağılamak
  - → Crimean Tatar: aşağalamaq

References

^ Clauson (1972), p. 259
^ Clauson (1972), p. 259-260

Yıkılmaz, A. (2020). Alt ~ Aşağı ~ Ast Sözlerine Dâir. Türkbilig(39), 59-70.
al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074), Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume I, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 66
Clauson, Gerard (1972), An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 259-260