јайын
Southern Altai edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Turkic *yāyïn (“catfish, sheat-fish; salmon”).
Cognate with Tatar җәен (cäyen, “catfish”), Kazakh жайын (jaiyn, “catfish”), Nogai яйын (yayın, “catfish”), Kumyk яйын (yayın, “catfish”), Kyrgyz жайын (jayın, “catfish”), Bashkir йәйен (yəyen, “catfish”), Chuvash ҫуйӑн (śujăn, “catfish”).
Noun edit
јайын • (ǰayïn)
References edit
- comparative and historical grammar of Turkic languages. Lexicon, 2001, in Russian, 178 pages