јекен

Southern Altai

Etymology

Cognate to Kyrgyz жекен (jeken, “bulrush”), Tatar җикән (cikän, “reed”), Bashkir екән (yekən, “reed, bulrush”), etc.

Noun

јекен • (ǰeken)

  1. reed

References

  • Verbickij, V. I. (1884) “јекен”, in Словарь алтайского и аладагского наречий тюркского языка [Dictionary of Altaic and Aladag dialects of Turkic], Kazan, page 89
  • Sevortjan, E. V., Levitskaja, L. S. (1989) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume IV, Moscow: Nauka, page 172
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