јайын

Southern Altai

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yāyïn (“catfish, sheat-fish; salmon”).

Cognate with Tatar җәен (cäyen, “catfish”), Kazakh жайын (jaiyn, “catfish”), Nogai яйын (yayın, “catfish”), Kumyk яйын (yayın, “catfish”), Kyrgyz жайын (jayın, “catfish”), Bashkir йәйен (yəyen, “catfish”), Chuvash ҫуйӑн (śujăn, “catfish”).

Noun

јайын • (ǰayïn)

1. catfish

References

• comparative and historical grammar of Turkic languages. Lexicon, 2001, in Russian, 178 pages