Southern Altai edit

Etymology edit

From *bešägü (five as a group), from Proto-Turkic *bẹ̄ĺ(k) (five).

Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (bešägü, five as a group); Bashkir бишәү (bişəw, five as a group), Kazakh бесеу (beseu, five as a group), Kumyk бешев (beşew, five as a group), Kyrgyz бешөө (beşöö, five), etc.

Numeral edit

бежӱ (bežü)

  1. five (in a group together)

Related terms edit

References edit

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