Sanskrit Loanwords in Uighur–Mongolian Script Texts

Ölmez M.

Permanent International Altaistic Conference 66ᵗʰ Annual Meeting, June 30th to July5th, 2024, Göttingen, Almanya, 30 Haziran - 05 Temmuz 2024

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Yayınlanmadı
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Göttingen
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Almanya
  • İstanbul Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

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Sanskrit Loanwords in Uighur–Mongolian Script Texts

 

Mehmet ÖLMEZ

Istanbul University

olmez.mehmet@gmail.com

 

Between Turkic and Mongolian languages on mutual borrowings, there are at least two (may be three) steps:

 

1) Unknown period (dark period ?)

2) 6th – 12th centuries

3) After 13th century

 

My topic is limited to Sanskrit words in Mongolian which were borrowed through Uyghur language.

Those Sanskrit words were also borrowed into Uyghur in different ways:

1) Mo. abida < Uygh. < Chin. a-mi-tuo (~ *amita) < Skr. amitābha

2) Mo. abidarim < Uyg. abidarim << Skr. abhidharma (<< = < Tocharian)

3) Mo. čiγsabd < Uyg. čixšapat < Sogd. < Skr. śikṣāpada

 

My paper deals with details on Buddhist Sanskrit terms which were written in Uyghur-Mongolian script.