Southern Altai

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Etymology

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From Common Turkic *yïd. Compare Turkmen ys, Uyghur ھىد (hid), Uzbek is (smell, odor), Kyrgyz жыт (jıt), Kumyk ийис (iyis, smell), Kazakh иіс (iıs), Tatar ис (is, smell), Bashkir еҫ (yeś, smell), etc.

Noun

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јыт (ǰït)

  1. smell

References

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