gaş

See also: Appendix:Variations of "gas"

Salar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kāĺ. Cognate with dialectal Azerbaijani qaş (“mountain chain; slanting trees in the attic of the house”), dialectal Turkish kaş (“steep cliffs, cliffs; hill, mountain; border, embankment made by piling soil in vineyards and gardens; wall, the top of the wall”), also dialectal Uyghur [script needed] (qaş, “side”).

Pronunciation

• (Mengda, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA^(key): [qɑʃ]

Noun

gaş

1. side, edge
2. close, related

References

• Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “gaş”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 462