Southern Altai

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *büdi- (to dance).

Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (büdi-, to dance); Tatar биергә (biyergä, to dance), Nogai биюв (biyuv, to dance), Kumyk бийимек (biyimek, to dance), Yakut битий (bitiy, to dance at one place).

Verb

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бийеер (biyeer)

  1. to dance
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References

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Čumakajev A. E., editor (2018), “бийеер”, in Altajsko-russkij slovarʹ [Altaic–Russian Dictionary], Gorno-Altaysk: NII altaistiki im. S.S. Surazakova, →ISBN