سایغاق

Chagatai

Etymology

Cognate with Karaim suhak.

Noun

سایغاق (saiɣak)

a kind of chamois

Descendants

→ Middle Russian: сайгакъ (sajgak)
- Russian: сайга́ (sajgá), сайга́к (sajgák)
  - → English: saiga

References

Radloff, Friedrich Wilhelm (1911) Опыт словаря тюркских наречий – Versuch eines Wörterbuches der Türk-Dialecte [Attempt at a Lexicon of the Turkic Dialects] (in German and Russian), volume IV, Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 222
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “сайга”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress

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