ейән

Bashkir

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yegin (“nephew”)[1].

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (yegin, “nephew”)[2], Old Uyghur [script needed] (yegän, “nephew”)[3]; Kazakh жиен (jien, “nephew, niece”), Kyrgyz жээн (jeen, “sororal nephew; daughter's son”), Southern Altai јеен (ǰeen), Uzbek jiyan (“nephew”), Turkish yeğen (“nephew, niece”), Yakut сиэн (sien, “grandson”), etc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [jɪ̞ˈjæn]
  • Hyphenation: е‧йән

Noun

ейән • (yeyän)

  1. grandson

Declension

Coordinate terms

  • ейәнсәр (yeyänsär, “granddaughter”)
  • олатай (olatay)/ҡартатай (qartatay, “grandfather”)
  • өләсәй (öläsäy)/ҡәртнәй (qärtnäy, “grandmother”)

References

  1. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*jEgin”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  2. Nadeljajev, V. M.; Nasilov, D. M.; Tenišev, E. R.; Ščerbak, A. M., editors (1969) Drevnetjurkskij slovarʹ [Dictionary of Old Turkic] (in Russian), Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, Nauka, page 253
  3. Nadeljajev, V. M.; Nasilov, D. M.; Tenišev, E. R.; Ščerbak, A. M., editors (1969) Drevnetjurkskij slovarʹ [Dictionary of Old Turkic] (in Russian), Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, Nauka, page 252
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