јетеген

Southern Altai

Etymology

From *yetigän (“Ursa Major”), from Proto-Turkic Proto-Turkic *yẹt(t)i (“seven”).

Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (jetigän, “Ursa Major”), Tatar җидегән (cidegän, “Ursa Major”), Nogai Етеген (Yetegen, “Ursa Major”), Kyrgyz Жетиген (Jetigen, “Ursa Major”), Khakas Чидіген (Çidìgen, “Ursa Major”), Tofa Чеді Ӄан (“Ursa Major”).

Compare also Kazakh жетіген (jetıgen, “a 7-stringed musical instrument”).

Noun

јетеген • (ǰetegen)

1. Ursa Major

Related terms

• Јети-каан (J̌eti-kaan)

References

• Radloff, Friedrich Wilhelm (1893–1911) Опыт словаря тюркских наречий – Versuch eines Wörterbuches der Türk-Dialecte [Attempt at a Lexicon of the Turkic Dialects] (overall work in German and Russian), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 365