From Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (saqsı); cognate with Karakhanid سَسِق (sasiq, “potteryware”), Turkish saksı, Uzbek sassiq (“stinky”). Perhaps the Old Anatolian term is a metathesised form of *sas-kï, ultimately from Proto-Common Turkic *sasï- (“become rotten; stink; give off smoke”), in turn from < *sassï < *sarsï < *sar (“swamp, mud”), a by-form of *siāŕ (“marsh, dirt”), whence Turkish saz (“reed”)?