сиҥир

Southern Altai

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *siŋir (“sinew”). Cognate with Kazakh сіңір (sıñır), Kyrgyz сиңир (siŋir), Crimean Tatar siñir, Kumyk сингир (siñir), Tatar сеңер (señer), Azerbaijani sinir, Turkish sinir, Turkmen siňir, Uzbek singir, Khakas сиир (siir), Tuvan сиир (siir), etc.

Noun

сиҥир • (siŋir)

  1. thread, sinew, tendon

References

  • Verbickij, V. I. (1884) “сиҥир”, in Словарь алтайского и аладагского наречий тюркского языка [Dictionary of Altaic and Aladag dialects of Turkic], Kazan
  • L. T. Rjumina-Syrkaševa, editor (1995), “сиҥир”, in Teleutsko-russkij slovarʹ [Teleut–Russian Dictionary], Kemerovo: N. A. Kučigaševa, →ISBN
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