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сонгино

Mongolian

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MongolianCyrillic
ᠰᠣᠩᠭᠢᠨ᠎ᠠ
(songgin-a)		сонгино
(songino)

Etymology

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From Middle Mongol ᠰᠣᠭᠣᠩᠭᠢᠨ ᠠ (soɣonggin-a). A loanword from Proto-Turkic *sogan (“onion”) augmented with a suffix resembling Middle Mongol ᠭᠠᠨᠠ (-ɣana), ᠭᠡᠨᠡ (-gene) used in names of plants.[1][2]

Noun

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сонгино • (songino)

  1. onion

Descendants

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  • → Manchu: ᠰᡠᠨᡤᡤᡳᠨᠠ (sunggina)

References

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  1. ^ Poppe, Nicholas (1991) “On Some Suffixes of Plant Names in Mongolian”, in Zentralasiatische Studien‎[1], number 15, pages 382-390.
  2. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “soːğun”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 812.
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