Southern Altai edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Turkic *ɨŋɨr (twilight).

Cognate with Tatar эңгер (eñger), Kazakh іңір (ıñır), ымырт (ymyrt), Kyrgyz иңир (iŋir), иңирт (iŋirt), Karachay-Balkar ингир (iñir, evening), Turkmen iňrik (evening twilight); Tuvan имир (imir), имиртиң (imirtiñ, twilight), Yakut им (im, twilight), Chuvash ӗнер (ĕner, yesterday), etc.

Noun edit

эҥир (eŋir)

  1. evening

References edit

N. A. Baskakov, Toščakova N.A, editor (1947), “эҥир”, in Ojrotsko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Oyrot-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: M.: OGIZ, →ISBN