Uyghur edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Turkic *yēnik.[1][2] Cognates with Karakhanid یَنِك (yenik, yenig), Turkish yeğni, yenik or yeyni (regional). Also *yeŋgü-l is derived to Bashkir еңел (yeñel), Tatar җиңел (ciñel), Kyrgyz жеңил (jeŋil), Southern Altai јеҥил (ǰeŋil), Kumyk енгил (yeñil).

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

يېنىك (yënik)

  1. light, not heavy
  2. flighty, frivolous
  3. digestable

References edit

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yénik”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 950
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jeŋgü-l, jeŋi-k”, 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