уйнау
Bashkir edit
Actors performing on the scene.
Etymology edit
From Proto-Turkic *oyna- (“to play”).[1]
Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (ojna-, “to play”); Uyghur ئوينىماق (oynimaq, “to play”), Turkish oynamak (“to play”), Tuvan ойнаар (oynaar, “to play”), Yakut оонньоо (oonnyoo, “to play”), etc.
Verb edit
уйнау • (uynaw)
- (intransitive) to play, to act so as to have fun
- (transitive, intransitive) to play a musical instrument
- (transitive, intransitive) to act, perform a role in theater or a film
- (transitive, intransitive) to play, as in perform in (a sport) or to participate in (a game)
References edit
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*oj-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill