јайын

Southern Altai

Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *yāyïn (“catfish, sheat-fish; salmon”).

Cognate with Tatar җәен (cäyen, “catfish”), Kazakh жайын (jaiyn, “catfish”), Nogai яйын (yayın, “catfish”), Kumyk яйын (yayın, “catfish”), Kyrgyz жайын (jayın, “catfish”), Bashkir йәйен (yəyen, “catfish”), Chuvash ҫуйӑн (śujăn, “catfish”).

Noun

јайын • (ǰayïn)

  1. catfish

References

  • comparative and historical grammar of Turkic languages. Lexicon, 2001, in Russian, 178 pages

Etymology 2

From Proto-Turkic *yay (“summer”) and Proto-Turkic *-in (instrumental case).

Adverb

јайын • (ǰayïn)

  1. in summer

References

  • Грамматика Современного Алтайского Языка - Морфология, pages 138
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