ꡝ ꡛ ꡘ ꡢꡟ
Middle Mongol
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Mongolic *asara- (“to take care of, bring up, raise”)[1]
Verb
ꡝ
ꡛ
ꡘ
ꡢꡟ ("-s-r-qu /asaraqu/)
- (transitive) to take care of, nurse
Descendants
- Central Mongolic:
- Classical Mongolian: ᠠᠰᠠᠷᠠᠬᠤ (asaraqu)
- Mongolian: асрах (asrax)
- Buryat: асарха (asarxa)
- Written Oirat:
- Kalmyk: асрх (asrx)
- Classical Mongolian: ᠠᠰᠠᠷᠠᠬᠤ (asaraqu)
- Daur: [Term?] (/asər-/)
- Southern Mongolic:
- East Yugur: [Term?] (/hsəra/), [Term?] (/sra-/), [Term?] (/asara-/)
- Shirongolic:
- Mongghul: [Term?] (/asïra-/)
- → Chagatai: اسراماق (ʾsrāmāq /asramaq/)
- → Kyrgyz: асыроо (asıroo)
- → Old Anatolian Turkish: اسرامق (asramaq)
- Turkish: (dialectal) asramak
- → Salar: asırağusı
- → Tuvan: [Term?] (/azïra-/)[2]
References
Further reading
- D. Tumurtogoo, editor (2010), Mongolian monuments in ʾPhags-pa script (Language and Linguistics monograph series; 42), Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, page 181