эйә

See also: эйе and әйе

Bashkir

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *Edi (owner, host)[1].

Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (igä, owner)[2]; Tatar ия (iya), Kazakh ие (ie), Kyrgyz ээ (ee), Southern Altai ээ (ee), Tuvan ээ (ee), Uzbek ega, Uyghur ئىگە (ige), Azerbaijani yiyə, Turkish iye (owner, possessor).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɪ̞ˈjæ]
  • Hyphenation: э‧йә

Noun

эйә (eyä)

  1. owner, possessor
    Synonym: хужа (xuja)
  2. (linguistics) subject
  3. (mythology) spirit/sprite living in and controlling a certain location
    Өй эйәһе.
    Öy eyähe.
    House spirit.
    Һыу эйәһе.
    Hıw eyähe.
    Water sprite.

Declension

Predicative

эйә (eyä) (takes dative case, takes the final position in the sentence)

  1. have, possess a certain property
    Йүкә балы тәмле, хуш еҫле, ҙур дауалау көсөнә эйә.
    Yükä balı tämle, xuş yeθle, ður dawalaw kösönä eyä.
    Linden honey is palatable, has a pleasant smell and great medicinal properties.
    Сит кешенең ҡолағына ят булып ишетелгән атамалар шул төбәктә тыуып үҫкәндәр өсөн ҙур мәғәнәгә эйә.
    Sit keşeneŋ qolağına yat bulıp işetelgän atamalar şul töbäktä tıwıp üθkändär ösön ður mäğänägä eyä.
    The place names that sound strange to a foreigner's ears, have a deep meaning for those who were born and grew up in that region.

References

  1. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), *Edi”, 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 204
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