Inherited fromProto-Turkic*edgü(“good, excellent”). Cognate withOld Uyghur𐽰𐽸𐽷𐽳(ʾdkw/edgü/),Chuvashырӑ(yră,“good”),Turkishiyi(“good”),Uzbekezgu,Bashkirизге(izge,“holy, sacred”),Yakutүтүө(ütüö,“good”).
𐰓𐰏𐰇 (edgü)
- good
- Tekin, Talât (1968), “ädgü”, inA Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series;69), Bloomington: Indiana University,→ISBN,page324
- Clauson, Gerard (1972), “edgü”, inAn Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press,→ISBN,→OCLC,page51
- Starostin, Sergei;Dybo, Anna;Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*ed”, inEtymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill