saksağan
Appearance
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish صقساغان, صقسغان (saksağan, “magpie”), from Proto-Turkic *sagïzgan (“magpie”).[1]
Cognate with Azerbaijani sağsağan, Gagauz saksaan, saksan, Kyrgyz сагызган (sagızgan), Southern Altai саҥыскан (saŋïskan), Kazakh сауысқан (sauysqan), Salar sıxsığan, etc.
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]saksağan
Declension
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*sagïsgan”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill