берк

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *berk.[1][2]

Adjective

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берк (berk)

  1. firm, sturdy
  2. strong, mighty

References

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  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “berk”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 361
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*berk”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill