Bashkir

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Илле тин аҡса.
Fifty kopeks coin.

Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *tegiŋ (squirrel). A squirrel pelt was used as a monetary unit - see e.g. the etymology of Finnish raha (money).

Doublet of тейен (squirrel).

Cognate with Tatar тиен (tiyen, kopek), Kazakh тиын (tiyn, former currency unit), Kyrgyz тыйын (tıyın, kopek), Uzbek tiyin (currency unit in Uzbekistan), Uyghur تىيىن (tiyin, kopek).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [tʰʲe̝n]
  • Hyphenation: тин (one syllable)

Noun

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тин (transliteration needed)

  1. kopek, one hundredth of Russian ruble

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Russian

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Noun

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тин (tinf inan pl

  1. genitive plural of ти́на (tína)

Ukrainian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old East Slavic тꙑнъ (tynŭ), from Proto-Slavic *tynъ. Cognate with Belarusian тын (tyn), Polish tyn.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [tɪn]
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Noun

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тин (tynm inan (genitive ти́ну, nominative plural тини́, genitive plural тині́в)

  1. fence made out of vines and branches; wattle
  2. a fence in general

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Further reading

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  • Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2006), “тин”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 5 (Р – Т), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 568