ükgüsi

Salar

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ügi-. Cognate with Azerbaijani üyütmək, Gagauz üütmää, Turkish öğütmek, Turkmen üwemek, üwetmek, also Kazakh үгу (ügu), Uyghur [script needed] (ugatmaq), Tuvan [script needed] (öge-), etc.

Pronunciation

• (Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA^(key): /yx(ɣysi)/
• (Hualong, Qinghai) IPA^(key): /yxy(ɣysi)/
• (Mengda, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA^(key): /øx(ɣysi)/

Verb

ükgüsi (passive imperative ükül, present continuous ükbar, past ükci)

1. to grind (flour, rice, etc.)

   Er kişge dermen ük deme,
   Kin kişge satıq et deme.

   Don't tell men to turn the mill,
   Don't talk about business to women.

Derived terms

• üküt (“cereal”)
• ükütgüsi, üketgüsi

References

• 林莲云 [Lin Lianyun] (1985) “ükgüsi”, in 撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar]‎^[2], Beijing: 民族出版社: 琴書店, →OCLC, pages 5, 140
• 林 (Lin), 莲云 (Lianyun) (1992) “ükgüsi”, in 撒拉汉汉撒拉词汇 [Salar-Chinese, Chinese-Salar Vocabulary], 成都: 四川民族出版社, →ISBN, page 21
• Yakup, Abdurishid (2002) “yxyt”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎^[3], Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 173
• Ma, Chengjun, Han, Lianye, Ma, Weisheng (December 2010) “ükgüsi”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor, 撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 206
• 马伟 (Ma Wei), 朝克 (Chao Ke) (2016) “ükgüsi”, in 濒危语言——撒拉语研究 [Endangered Languages ​​- Salar Language Studies], 青海 (Qinghai): 国家社会科学基金项目 (National Social Science Foundation Project), page 287