Jump to content

ᠴᠣᡴᠣ

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Manchu

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From Proto-Tungusic *tiaku (“hen”),[1] in turn from Proto-Turkic *tiakïgu (“hen, fowl”)

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

ᠴᠣᡴᠣ • (coko)

  1. chicken

References

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

Proper noun

[edit]

ᠴᠣᡴᠣ • (coko)

  1. rooster; chicken, the tenth of the twelve earthly branches

References

[edit]
  • Jerry Norman (2013) A Comprehensive Manchu-English Dictionary, Harvard University Press
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=ᠴᠣᡴᠣ&oldid=82537732"