Bashkir

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *yügür- (to run).[1]

Cognate with Kazakh жүгіру (jügıru), Kyrgyz жүгүрүү (jügürüü), Crimean Tatar cuvurmaq, Uyghur يۈگۈرمەك (yügürmek), Uzbek yugurmoq, Azerbaijani yüyürmək, Tuvan чүгүрер (çügürer), Yakut сүүр (süür, to run), etc.

Verb

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йүгереү (yügerew)

  1. to run

References

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