Southern Altai edit

Etymology edit

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 edit

сакчы (sakčï)

  1. guard, guardian

References edit

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