бойучы

Southern Altai

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bodagčï, derived from Proto-Turkic *bodag (“paint, dye”). Equivalent to бойу (boyu, “paint”) +‎ -чы (-čï, affix forming an agent noun). Cognate with Bashkir буяусы (buyawsı), Kazakh бояушы (boäuşy), Kyrgyz боёкчу (boyokcu), Tatar буяучы (buyawçı), Uyghur بوياقچى (boyaqchi), Uzbek boʻyoqchi.

Noun

бойучы • (boyučï)

1. painter

See also

• бойу (boyu)
• бойор (boyor)

References

• Radloff, Friedrich Wilhelm (1893–1911) Опыт словаря тюркских наречий – Versuch eines Wörterbuches der Türk-Dialecte [Attempt at a Lexicon of the Turkic Dialects] (overall work in German and Russian), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences