койу

Southern Altai

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *koyug. Cognate with Kazakh қою (qoü) , Nogai койы (koyı), Kyrgyz коюу (koyuu), Karaim koju, Bashkir ҡуйы (quyı), Tatar куе (quye), Turkish koyu, Uzbek quyuq, Uyghur قويۇق (qoyuq), Khakas хойығ (xoyığ), Shor қойуғ, Tuvan хоюг (xoyug), Yakut хойуу (qoyuu), etc.

Adjective

койу • (koyu)

  1. thick

References

  • N. A. Baskakov, Toščakova N.A, editor (1947), “койу”, in Ojrotsko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Oyrot-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: M.: OGIZ, →ISBN
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