اورنك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Perhaps a derivation from Proto-Turkic *ȫr-, *ör- or some metathesized derivation of *ög-, *ögre-. Compare Kazakh өрнек (örnek), Uzbek o'rnak, Uyghur ئۆرنەك‎ (örnek), Tatar үрнәк (ürnäk) (all from Chagatai?).

According to Budagov, borrowed from Middle Armenian օրինակ (ōrinak), from Old Armenian օրինակ (ōrinak, “example”).[1][2], which is called into question by Sevortyan[3] and rejected by Lewis [4].

Origin from گورمك‎ (görmek, “to see”) has also been suggested,[5] but such a formation is unusual in Turkic, and the drop of g- would remain unexplained.[2][6]

Noun

اورنك • (örnek)

  1. example, model
  2. moral (of story), lesson

Descendants
  • Turkish: örnek
  • → Albanian: yrnek
  • → Bulgarian: юрнек (jurnek)
  • → Laz: ორნეღი (orneği)
  • → Northern Kurdish: ornek
  • → Greek: ορνέκι (ornéki)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: урнек/urnek

References
  1. Budagov, Lazarʹ (1869) Sravnitelʹnyj slovarʹ turecko-tatarskix narěčij [Comparative Dictionary of Turko-Tatar Dialects] (in Russian), volume I, Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 127
  2. Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), “օրինակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 619a
  3. Sevortjan, E. V. (1974) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages]‎ (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Nauka, pages 549-550
  4. Lewis, Geoffrey (1999) The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, page 120
  5. Vámbéry, Ármin (1878) Etymologisches Wörterbuch der Turko-tatarischen Sprachen, Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, page 78
  6. Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, pages 169–170

Further reading
  • Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 375a
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “örnek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
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