јеҥе

Southern Altai

Etymology

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

јеҥе • (ǰeŋe)

1. 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

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