ꡅꡠ ꡘꡞꡂ

Inherited from Proto-Mongolic *čerig, either borrowed form or loaned into Proto-Turkic *čerig. Cognate with Turkish çeri.

ꡅꡠ
ꡘꡞꡂ (čʼe-rig /čerig/)

1. (military) army, troops, soliders

• Central Mongolic:
  • Classical Mongolian: ᠴᠡᠷᠢᠭ (čerig)
    • Mongolian: цэрэг (cereg)
    • Buryat: сэрэг (sereg)
  • Written Oirat:
    • Kalmyk: церг (tserg)
• Daur: [Term?] (/⁠celle⁠/)
• Southern Mongolic:
  • Shirongolic:
    • Mongghul: [Term?] (/⁠qirig⁠/)

• D. Tumurtogoo, editor (2010), Mongolian monuments in ʾPhags-pa script (Language and Linguistics monograph series; 42), Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, page 183