Names of Cereals in the Turkic Languages - Wydział Filologiczny UJ

40 mysyr || Milletspecies of millet’, Dmitrieva 1972 || Trkm.: ÈSTJa || Uyg.: ‘mediocre species ofmillet’ VEWT || Uzb.: ÈSTJakonāk MTkc.MA.B: Borovkov 1971: 106konakaj Nog.: ÈSTJakonok Kirg.: ÈSTJa ‘Setaria italica var. mogharium Alef.’, Steblin-Kamenskij 1982: 36 ‘Setariaitalica var. mogharium Alef.; setaria (Setaria P.B.); foxtail millet (Setaria italica P.B.)’|| Uyg.: VEWTkunak Uzb.: (‘мeлкоe’) Smolenskij 1912qonaq OUyg.: DTS ‘species of millet’, Steblin-Kamenskij 1982: 36 || Uyg.: Jarring 1964,Steblin-Kamenskij 1982: 36qunoq Uzb.: Dmitrieva 1972, Steblin-Kamenskij 1982: 36xonak Tuv.: ÈSTJa ‘Setaria viridis P.B.’languages:Čag.: konag, konak || Kirg.: konak, konok || Kklp.: konak || Kzk.: itkonak, konak || MTkc.:kojak, konak || MTkc.MA.B: konāk || MTkc.MK: kojak, konak || Nog.: konakaj || OTkc.:kojak, konak || OUyg.: qonaq || Trkm.: konak || Tuv.: xonak || Uyg.: konaγ, konak, konok,qonaq || Uzb.: konak, kunak, qunoqetymology:1969: VEWT: ~ Mo. qonaγ, qonuγ ‘millet’1974: ÈSTJa: limits himselft to quoting two previous comparisons with Mo.against Clauson 19721976: KWb 185: only points to the comparison with qonaγ, qonuγcommentary:This word is common in the Tkc. languages and has many meanings 28 , ‘millet’ beingthe most common one.Clauson’s 1972 etymology is, as ÈSTJa has stated, very improbable for phonetic(konak, not *kōnak) and semantic (kōn- ‘to sit’, not ‘to seat’) reasons. Unfortunately, noother etymology has been proposed, and we are not able to provide one, either.About borrowing this word to the Pamir. languages, see Steblin-Kamenskij 1982: 35f.mysyrforms:mysyr Tksh.dial.: DSmysyr bugdajy Tksh.dial.: ‘millet’ Eren 1999mysyrda(ry) Tksh.dial.: DSmysyrgan Tksh.dial.: DSetymology: as yet not discussed in the meaning of ‘millet’28 Most of them are related to cereals – as a general term, or as the name of some species. Apartfrom ‘millet’, they are: ‘setarias’ (Tuv.), ‘corn’, ‘sorghum’ (Kirg.) and others (ÈSTJa). See also(kömme) konak ‘corn’.