-саг

See also: саг and Appendix:Variations of "sag"

Mongolian

Mongolian	Cyrillic
᠊ᠰᠠᠭ (-sag)	-саг (-sag)

Etymology

From Classical Mongolian ᠰᠠᠭ (sag), borrowed from Turkic, originally a combination of a desiderative verb suffix *-sa- and *-k. Compare Karakhanid اَرسَك (erseg, “nymphomaniac”) and Mongolian эрсэг (erseg, “nymphomaniac”).

Pronunciation

(Ulaanbaatar) IPA^(key): /səɡ/

Suffix

-саг • (-sag)

1. (forming adjectives out of nouns) fond of

Inflection

Vowel harmonic forms of -саг

	back vowel	front vowel
unrounded	-саг (-sag)	-сэг (-seg)
rounded	-сог (-sog)	-сөг (-sög)

Derived terms

Mongolian terms suffixed with -саг

гэрсэг

махсаг

төмөрсөг

See also

• -мсаг (-msag)