кӧгӧн

Southern Altai

Etymology

From *kökegün (“gadfly”), perhaps derived from Proto-Turkic *kȫk (“blue”).

Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (kökägün, “fly?”); Tatar кигәвен (kigäwen, “gadfly”), Kyrgyz көгөөн (kögöön, “gadfly”), Uyghur كۆكۈيۈن (köküyün, “gadfly”), etc.

Noun

кӧгӧн • (kögön)

1. gadfly

References

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