Southern Altai

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *üŕ- (to break, tear, demolish). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (üz-, to break, tear), Azerbaijani üzmək (to break), Bashkir өҙөү (öźöw, to tear, break), Khakas ӱзерге (üzerge, to break off, pick off), Kyrgyz үзүү (üzüü, to interrupt, break, disrupt, pluck), Turkmen üzmek (to tear off, pluck), Uzbek uzmoq (to break, tear, pick).

Verb

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ӱзер (üzer)

  1. to tear

References

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