Southern Altai edit

Etymology edit

From Common Turkic mïyïq, from Proto-Turkic *bïdïk (moustache).

Cognate with Kazakh миық (miyq), Kyrgyz мыйык (mıyık), Tatar мыек (mıyek), Crimean Tatar mıyıq, Kumyk мыйыкъ (mıyıq), Azerbaijani bığ, Turkish bıyık (moustache), etc.

Noun edit

мыйык (mïyïk)

  1. moustache

Declension edit

References edit

мыйык”, in Grammatika Altajskovo Jazyka [Altaic language Grammar], Kazan: V universtiteskoj til, 1869, →ISBN