Northern Altai

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *kūrïk (dry).

Cognate with Khakas хуруғ (xuruğ), Tatar коры (qorı), Karachay-Balkar къуру (quru), Uzbek quruq, Uyghur قۇرۇق (quruq), Turkish kuru (dry), Chuvash хӑрӑк (hărăk, dry (of wood)).

Adjective

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куруг (kurug)

  1. dry

References

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N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “куруг”, in Severnyje dialekty Altajskovo (Ojrotskovo Jazyka- Dialekt kumandincev(Kumandin Kiži) [Northern Dialect of Altai -Kumandin Dialect(Kumandin kiži)], Moskva: glavnaja redakcija vostočnoja literatury, →ISBN