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јаа

Southern Altai edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Turkic *yā(y) (“bow”). Cognate with Kazakh жай (jai), Kyrgyz жаа (jaa), Kumyk жая (jaya), Azerbaijani yay, Turkish yay, Turkmen ýāý, Uzbek yoy, Shor чачақ, Tuvan ча (ça), Western Yugur ya (“arrow”), etc.

Noun edit

јаа • (ǰaa)

  1. bow

References edit

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