сайгак
Russian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Chagatai سایغاق (saiɣak, “a kind of chamois”).[1][2]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
сайга́к • (sajgák) m anim (genitive сайга́ка, nominative plural сайга́ки, genitive plural сайга́ков)
- saiga (antelope)
Declension edit
Declension of сайга́к (anim masc-form velar-stem accent-a)
Alternative forms edit
- сайга́ (sajgá)
References edit
- ^ Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “сайга”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- ^ Radloff, Friedrich Wilhelm (1911) Опыт словаря тюркских наречий – Versuch eines Wörterbuches der Türk-Dialecte [Attempt at a Lexicon of the Turkic Dialects], volume IV (overall work in German and Russian), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 222