Uyghur edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Turkic *teke.[1][2] Cognates with Turkish teke.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

تېكە (tëke) (plural تېكىلەر (tëkiler))

  1. a billy goat, he-goat

References edit

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “teke:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 477
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*teke”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Further reading edit

  • Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN