赛堪

Kyakala

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Mongolic *saxïkan. Cognate with Manchu ᠰᠠᡳᡴᠠᠨ (saikan, “beautiful”). Compare also Mongolian сайхан (sajxan).

Adjective

赛堪 (saikan)

1. beautiful

References

• Andreas Hölzl (2019) “A wedding ceremony of the Kyakala in China: Language and ritual”, in International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction‎^[1], volume 16, page 113