јекен

Southern Altai

Etymology

Cognate to Kyrgyz жекен (jeken, “bulrush”), Tatar җикән (cikän, “reed”), Bashkir екән (yekən, “reed, bulrush”), etc.

Noun

јекен • (ǰeken)

1. reed

References

• V. verbickij, editor (1884), “јекен”, in Slovarʹ Altajskago i Aladagskago narečij tjurkskago jazyka [Altaian and Aladagian language Dictionary], Kazan', →ISBN, page 89
• Sevortjan, E. V., Levitskaja, L. S. (1989) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume IV, Moscow: Nauka, page 172