يزنا
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Karakhanid[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Common Turkic *yeŕne. Cognate with Azerbaijani yeznə, Uzbek yezna, Bashkir еҙнә (yeźnə) and Tuvan честе (çeste).
Noun[edit]
يَزْنا (yeznē)
- husband of an elder sister
References[edit]
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yezne:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Further reading[edit]
- 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 III, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 35