Southern Altai

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *yigit (young man).

Noun

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јиит (ǰiit)

  1. young man

References

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