моортай

Tuvan

Etymology

From Mongolic *muur (“onomatopoeia for purring”) +‎ -тай (-tay, “adjectival suffix”), literally "purring (animal)". Cognate to Mongolian муур (muur), Dukhan муурдай.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔːrˈtaj/

Noun

моортай • (moortay) (definite accusative моортайны, plural моортайлар)

1. cat

Synonyms

• диис (diis)

References

Tatarincev, B. I. (2000–2008) “моортай”, in Monguš D. A., editor, Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tuvinskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Tuvan Language] (in Russian), Novosibirsk: Nauka