өгей

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic	وگەي
Cyrillic	өгей
Latin	ögei
Yañalif	ɵgei

Etymology

From *ögäy "step-", probably derived from Proto-Turkic *ög (“mother”).

Cognate with Old Uyghur ögäj (“step-”); Tatar үги (ügi, “step-”), Bashkir үгәй (ügəy, “step-”), Kyrgyz өгөй (ögöy, “step-”), Southern Altai ӧй (öy, “step-”), Crimean Tatar ögey (“step-”), Uzbek oʻgay (“step-”), Uyghur ئوگەي (ogey, “step-”), Turkish üvey (“step-”), Khakas ӧӧй (“step-”), etc.

Adjective

өгей • (ögei)

1. (family) step-; used before ана (ana, “mother”), әке (äke, “father”), бала (bala, “child; son”), қыз (qyz, “daughter”), etc., to indicate that the person being identified is not a blood relative but is related through the marriage of a parent.