бежӱ

Southern Altai

Etymology

From *bešägü (“five as a group”), from Proto-Turkic *bẹ̄ĺ(k) (“five”).

Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (bešägü, “five as a group”); Bashkir бишәү (bişəw, “five as a group”), Kazakh бесеу (beseu, “five as a group”), Kumyk бешев (beşew, “five as a group”), Kyrgyz бешөө (beşöö, “five”), etc.

Numeral

бежӱ • (bežü)

1. five (in a group together)

Related terms

• беш (beš)

References

N. A. Baskakov, Toščakova N.A, editor (1947), “бежӱ”, in Ojrotsko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Oyrot-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: M.: OGIZ, →ISBN