Bashkir edit

Etymology edit

From *sekir- (to jump), from Proto-Turkic *sēk- (to jump).[1]

Cognate with Kazakh секіру (sekıru), Kyrgyz секирүү (sekirüü), Uzbek sakramoq (to jump), Yakut эккирээ (ekkiree, to jump on the spot), etc.

Verb edit

һикереү (hikerew)

  1. to jump
    Synonym: ырғыу (ırğıw)

References edit

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*sēk-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill