Bashkir edit

 
Быу.

Etymology edit

From Proto-Turkic *būg (steam).[1]

Cognate with Karakhanid بُو (, steam); Kazakh бу (bu, steam), Kyrgyz буу (buu, steam), Southern Altai буу (buu, steam), Uzbek bugʻ (steam), Turkmen bug (steam), etc.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [bɯ̞w]
  • Hyphenation: быу (one syllable)

Noun edit

быу (bıw)

  1. steam

Declension edit

Synonyms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*būg”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill