Bashkir edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Turkic *kïrk- (to cut (hair, wool)).[1]

Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (qïrq-, to cut (hair, wool));[2] Kazakh қырқу (qyrqu, to cut (hair, wool)), Kyrgyz кыркуу (kırkuu, to cut (hair, wool)), Uzbek qirqmoq (to cut), Turkish kırkmak (to cut (hair, wool)), Yakut кырт (kırt, to cut (hair, wool)).

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

ҡырҡыу (qırqıw) (transitive)

  1. to cut
    Synonym: киҫеү (kiśew)
    Шыршы башына ҡатырғанан ҡырҡып ҡыҙыл йондоҙ ҡуйҙыҡ.
    Şırşı başına qatırğanan qırqıp qıźıl yondoź quyźıq.
    We cut a red star from cardboard and put it on top of the Cristmas tree.
  2. (hair, wool, nails) to cut; trim

References edit

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kɨrk-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  2. ^ Nadeljajev, V. M.; Nasilov, D. M.; Tenišev, E. R.; Ščerbak, A. M., editors (1969), Drevnetjurkskij slovarʹ [Dictionary of Old Turkic] (in Russian), Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, Nauka, page 446