قويۇن

Uyghur

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kōń,[1][2] perhaps related to *kod- (“to put”) Cognates with Turkish koyun, Southern Altai койын (koyïn).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /qojun/

Noun

قويۇن • (qoyun) (plural قويۇنلار (qoyunlar))

  1. bosom

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ko:ñ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 631
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kōjn”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Further reading

  • 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
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