Nogai

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *oyna-,[1][2] from *ōyun (game). Cognate to Karakalpak oynaw, etc.

Verb

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ойнав (oynav)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) to play

References

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  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “oyna:-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 275
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*oj-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill