сакчы

Southern Altai

Etymology

From *saq-čï (“guard, watchman”), from Proto-Turkic *sak (“aware; to protect”).

Cognate with Kazakh сақшы (saqşy, “guard”), Bashkir һаҡсы (haqsı), Tatar сакчы (saqçı), Kumyk сакъчы (saqçı), Uzbek soqchi (“guard, watchman”), etc.

Noun

сакчы • (sakčï)

1. guard, guardian

References

N. A. Baskakov, Toščakova N.A, editor (1947), “сакчы”, in Ojrotsko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Oyrot-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: M.: OGIZ, →ISBN