Khalaj

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Perso-Arabic کۆنی

Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *küni (co-wife). Cognate with Turkish günü, Azerbaijani günü, Turkmen güni.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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küni (definite accusative küniñ, plural künilər)

  1. co-wife
    Synonym: havû

Declension

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References

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  • Doerfer, Gerhard (1980) Wörterbuch des Chaladsch (Dialekt von Charrab) [Khalaj dictionary] (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó
  • Doerfer, Gerhard (1987) Lexik und Sprachgeographie des Chaladsch [Lexicon and Language Geography of Khalaj] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, →ISBN
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*güni”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill