Bashkir edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Turkic *yeŋe (elder brother's wife).

Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (jengä, older male relative's wife);[1] Kazakh жеңге (jeñge), Kyrgyz жеңе (jeŋe), Southern Altai јеҥе (ǰeŋe), Uyghur يەڭگە (yengge), Khakas ниге (nige), Yakut саҥас (sañas, older male relative's wife), Turkish yenge (aunt-in-law, one's brother's wife).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [jɪ̞ŋˈɡæ]
  • Hyphenation: ең‧гә

Noun edit

еңгә (yeñgə)

  1. the wife of one's elder brother, cousin or other male blood relative (who is older than the speaker but younger than the speaker's parents)

Declension edit

References edit

  1. ^ Nadeljajev, V. M.; Nasilov, D. M.; Tenišev, E. R.; Ščerbak, A. M., editors (1969), Drevnetjurkskij slovarʹ [Dictionary of Old Turkic] (in Russian), Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, Nauka, page 256