یوند

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

یونت‎ (yunt)

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yunt (“horse, mare”).[1] Cognate with Karakhanid يُنْدْ‎ (yund, “horse”), Chagatai يونت‎ (yunt, “horse”), Old Turkic 𐰖𐰆𐰣𐱃‎ (yunt, “mare”).

Noun

یوند • (yund)

wild mare

Descendants

Turkish: yont (dialectal)

References

Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*junt”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Redhouse, James W. (1890), “یوند”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2221

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