Bashkir edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Turkic *yegin (nephew).[1]

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (yegin, nephew),[2] Old Uyghur [script needed] (yegän, nephew);[3] Kazakh жиен (jien, nephew, niece), Kyrgyz жээн (jeen, sororal nephew; daughter's son), Southern Altai јеен (ǰeen), Uzbek jiyan (nephew), Turkish yeğen (nephew, niece), Yakut сиэн (sien, grandson), etc.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [jɪ̞ˈjæn]
  • Hyphenation: е‧йән

Noun edit

ейән (yeyən)

  1. grandson

Declension edit

Coordinate terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jEgin”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  2. ^ Nadeljajev, V. M.; Nasilov, D. M.; Tenišev, E. R.; Ščerbak, A. M., editors (1969), Drevnetjurkskij slovarʹ [Dictionary of Old Turkic] (in Russian), Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, Nauka, page 253
  3. ^ Nadeljajev, V. M.; Nasilov, D. M.; Tenišev, E. R.; Ščerbak, A. M., editors (1969), Drevnetjurkskij slovarʹ [Dictionary of Old Turkic] (in Russian), Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, Nauka, page 252