өрбөх

Yakut

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *čepürek (“rag, piece of cloth”).^[1] See Bashkir сепрәк (seprək) for more cognates.

Initial /s-/ was often debuccalized, and later dropped altogether, in an earlier stage of Yakut, and here we also see metathesis (/pr/ → /rb/). Such metathesis is common worldwide, for example Orpah → Oprah.

Noun

өрбөх • (örböq)

rag
Synonym: соттор (sottor, “towel”)

References

^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*čepürek”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

[1] Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*čepürek”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

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