Jump to content

ижек

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Bashkir

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (üžik, syllable; letter), Karakhanid [script needed] (üžük, syllable), Tatar иҗек (icek, syllable), Tuvan үжүк (üjük, letter; alphabet).

Akhmetyanov suggests derivation from Middle Chinese (ji, letter, symbol, character).

Pronunciation

[edit]
  • IPA(key): [e.ˈʒɪ̞k]
  • Hyphenation: и‧жек

Noun

[edit]

ижек (ijek)

  1. (linguistics) syllable
    Башҡорт телендә баҫым күпселек осраҡтарҙа аҙаҡҡы ижеккә төшә.
    Başqort telendə baśım küpselek osraqtarźa aźaqqı ijekkə töşə.
    In the Bashkir language, the stress in most cases falls on the last syllable.

Declension

[edit]

References

[edit]
  • R. Akhmetyanov (2015). Etimologicheskiy slovar' tatarskogo yazyka. // An Etymological Dictionary of Tatar Language. Kazan: Magarif-Vakyt publishers, ISBN not specified. vol.1, p.295.