Nogai

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *yumĺčak or *yïmĺčak.[1][2] Cognate with Karakalpak jumsaq.

Adjective

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юмсак (yumsak)

  1. soft

References

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  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yumşak”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 939
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jɨm-ĺča-k”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill