тоҥус

Southern Altai

Etymology

From Common Turkic *toŋuz, Proto-Turkic *toŋuŕ (“pig”). Cognate with Kazakh доңыз (doñyz), Kyrgyz доңуз (doŋuz), Crimean Tatar domuz, Karachay-Balkar тонгуз (toñuz), Kumyk донгуз (doñuz), Bashkir дуңғыҙ (duŋğıð), Tatar дуңгыз (duñgız), Azerbaijani donuz, Turkish domuz, Turkmen doňuz, Uzbek toʻngiʻz, Uyghur توڭگۇز‎ (tongguz), etc.

Noun

тоҥус • (toŋus)

pig

See also

тонус (tonus, “boar, male pig”)

References

Gürsoy Naskali, Emine M. Duran, editor (1999), “page:181”, in altayca Türkçe Sözlük [Altai-Turkish Dictionary], Ankara, →ISBN

V. verbickij, editor (1884), “page:364”, in Slovarʹ Altajskago i Aladagskago narečij tjurkskago jazyka, →ISBN

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