өрбөх

Yakut

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *čepürek (“rag, piece of cloth”)[1]. See Bashkir сепрәк (sepräk) for more cognates.

Initial /s-/ was often debuccalized, and later dropped altogether, in an earlier stage of Yakut, and here we also see metathesis (/pr/ → /rb/). Such metathesis is common worldwide, for example Orpah → Oprah.

Noun

өрбөх • (örböq)

  1. rag
    Synonym: соттор (sottor, “towel”)

References
  1. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*čepürek”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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