айры

Southern Altai

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *adruk. Cognates with Azerbaijani ayrı, Bashkir айырым (ayırım), Crimean Tatar ayrı, Kazakh айырым (aiyrym), Kyrgyz айры (ayrı), Tatar аерым (ayerım), Turkmen aýry, Uyghur ئايرىم (ayrim), Uzbek ayrim.

Adjective

айры • (ayrï)

  1. forked, bifurcated

References

  • Radloff, Friedrich Wilhelm (1893–1911) Опыт словаря тюркских наречий – Versuch eines Wörterbuches der Türk-Dialecte [Attempt at a Lexicon of the Turkic Dialects] (overall work in German and Russian), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 26
  • Čumakajev A. E., editor (2018), “айры”, in Altajsko-russkij slovarʹ [Altaic–Russian Dictionary], Gorno-Altaysk: NII altaistiki im. S.S. Surazakova, →ISBN, page 42
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