Southern Altai edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Turkic *čekürtke (grasshopper, locust). Cognate with Kazakh шегіртке (şegırtke), Kyrgyz чегиртке (cegirtke), Crimean Tatar sekirge, Bashkir сиңерткә (siñertkə), Tatar чикерткә (çikertkä), Azerbaijani çəyirtkə, Turkish çekirge, Tuvan шерги (şergi), etc.

Noun edit

чегертки (čegertki)

  1. locust

Synonyms edit

References edit

V. verbickij, editor (1884), “чегертки”, in Slovarʹ Altajskago i Aladagskago narečij tjurkskago jazyka [Altaian and Aladagian language Dictionary], Kazan', →ISBN