Uyghur edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Turkic *tǖtük[1] or *tǖtek.[2] Cognates with Turkish düdük.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

دۈدۈك (düdük) (plural دۈدۈكلەر (düdükler))

  1. a whistle, pipe

References edit

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*dǖtük”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  2. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “tütek”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 682

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