سایغاق

Chagatai

Etymology

Cognate with Karaim suhak.

Noun

سایغاق (saiɣak)

1. a kind of chamois

Descendants

• → Middle Russian: сайгакъ (sajgak)
  • Russian: сайга́ (sajgá), сайга́к (sajgák)
    • → English: saiga

References

• 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
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “сайга”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress