Southern Altai

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *yan- (to return).

Compare to Old Turkic [script needed] (jana, again, in Irk Bitig), Shor нанарға, Western Yugur yan- (to return), etc.

Verb

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јан- (ǰan-)

  1. to return home

References

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