Southern Altai

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *bodagčï, derived from Proto-Turkic *bodag (paint, dye). Equivalent to бойу (boyu, paint) +‎ -чы (-čï, affix forming an agent noun). Cognate with Bashkir буяусы (buyawsı), Kazakh бояушы (boäuşy), Kyrgyz боёкчу (boyokcu), Tatar буяучы (buyawçı), Uyghur بوياقچى (boyaqchi), Uzbek boʻyoqchi.

Noun

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бойучы (boyučï)

  1. painter

See also

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References

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  • Radloff, Friedrich Wilhelm (1893–1911) Опыт словаря тюркских наречий – Versuch eines Wörterbuches der Türk-Dialecte [Attempt at a Lexicon of the Turkic Dialects] (overall work in German and Russian), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences