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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