Nogai

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *koyug.[1][2] Cognate to Karakalpak qoyıw.

Adjective

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койы (koyı)

  1. dense, thick, saturated

References

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  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “koyuğ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 676
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Koju-g”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill