бойучы

Southern Altai

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bodagčï, derived from Proto-Turkic *bodag (“paint, dye”). Equivalent to бойу (boyu, “paint”) +‎ -чы (-čï, affix forming an agent noun). Cognate with Bashkir буяусы (buyawsı), Kazakh бояушы (boäuşy), Kyrgyz боёкчу (boyokcu), Tatar буяучы (buyawçı), Uyghur بوياقچى (boyaqchi), Uzbek boʻyoqchi.

Noun

бойучы • (boyučï)

  1. painter

See also

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
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