угсаа

Mongolian

Etymology

From Classical Mongolian ᠤᠭᠰᠠᠭ᠎ᠠ (uɣsag-a, “royal family”), similar but hard to connect with Manchu ᡠᡴᠰᡠᠨ (uksun) with the same meaning.

Separable into уг (ug, “origin”) +‎ *-саа (*-saa), but the latter part is not found as a suffix elsewhere.

It could be speculated that it represents an older ablative form, compare Buryat угһаа (ughaa, “previously, in the past”).

Noun

угсаа • (ugsaa)

1. ancestry, origin, descent
2. (historical) dynasty
3. breed, strain

Derived terms

• угсаатан (ugsaatan, “ethnicity”)