قېيىن
Appearance
Uyghur
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Turkic *kadïŋ.[1][2] Cognates with Turkish kayın, Southern Altai кайыҥ (kayïŋ), Kyrgyz кайың (kayıŋ), Tofa ӄадыӈ (qadïŋ), Northern Altai кайынъ (kayïnʺ), etc.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]قېيىن • (qëyin) (plural قېيىنلار (qëyinlar))
- birch (tree)
References
[edit]- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kaḏıŋ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 602
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kadɨŋ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Further reading
[edit]- Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN