یوجا

Kipchak

Etymology 1

Cognate with Turkish uca (“coccyx”).

Noun

یوجا (yüčä)

  1. back (of the body)

Etymology 2

Cognate with Azerbaijani uca (“high”), Turkish yüce.

Noun

یوجا (yüčä)

  1. top, highest part of anything, der höchste Theil jeder Sache

Adjective

یوجا (yüčä)

  1. high

Usage notes
  • Read by Houtsma as yüčä, whereas Tekin (1994) interpretes it as yuca, with back vowels.

References
  • Houtsma, Martin Theodor (1894) Ein türkisch-arabisches Glossar, nach der Leidener Handschrift herausgegeben und erläutert‎, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 109
  • Houtsma, Martin Theodor (1894) Ein türkisch-arabisches Glossar, nach der Leidener Handschrift herausgegeben und erläutert‎, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 21 (٢١) line 1
  • Tekin, Talat (1994) “Türk Dillerinde Önseste y- Türemesi [The origin of word-initial y- in Turkic languages]”, in Türk Dilleri Araştırmaları‎, volume 4, Ankara, page 58 of 51-66
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