јеҥе
Southern Altai edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Turkic *yeŋe (“elder brother's wife”).
Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (jengä, “older male relative's wife”); Kazakh жеңге (jeñge), Kyrgyz жеңе (jeŋe), Uyghur يەڭگە (yengge), Khakas ниге (nige), Yakut саҥас (sañas, “older male relative's wife”).
Noun edit
јеҥе • (ǰeŋe)
- the wife of one's elder brother, cousin or other male blood relative (who is older than the speaker but younger than the speaker's parents)
References edit
N. A. Baskakov, Toščakova N.A, editor (1947), “јеҥе”, in Ojrotsko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Oyrot-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: M.: OGIZ, →ISBN