Southern Altai edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Turkic *bakana (pole, pillar, column), or an early borrowing from a Mongolic source (compare Mongolian багана (bagana, pole, column)).

Cognate with Kazakh бағана (bağana, pillar, column), Karachay-Balkar багъана (bağana, pillar, column), Kumyk багъана (bağana), Tuvan багана (bagana, pillar, column), Yakut баҕана (bağana, pillar, column), etc.

Noun edit

бакана (bakana)

  1. pillar, column

References edit

N. A. Baskakov, Toščakova N.A, editor (1947), “бакана”, in Ojrotsko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Oyrot-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: M.: OGIZ, →ISBN

Udihe edit

Noun edit

бакана (bakana)

  1. one-year-old bear cub

References edit

  • Maria Tolskaya; Evaluative Morphology in Udihe.