јетеген

From *yetigän (“Ursa Major”), from Proto-Turkic Proto-Turkic *yẹt(t)i (“seven”).

Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (jetigän, “Ursa Major”), Tatar җидегән (cidegän, “Ursa Major”), Nogai Етеген (Yetegen, “Ursa Major”), Kyrgyz Жетиген (Jetigen, “Ursa Major”), Khakas Чидіген (Çidìgen, “Ursa Major”), Tofa Чеді Ӄан (“Ursa Major”).

Compare also Kazakh жетіген (jetıgen, “a 7-stringed musical instrument”).

јетеген • (ǰetegen)

1. Ursa Major

• Јети-каан (J̌eti-kaan)
• јетти-ган (ǰetti-gan)

• 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, column 365
• Verbickij, V. I. (1884) “јетти-ган”, in Словарь алтайского и аладагского наречий тюркского языка [Dictionary of Altaic and Aladag dialects of Turkic], Kazan, page 94
• Axmetʹjanov, R. G. (2015) “җидегән”, in Татар теленең этимологик сүзлеге / Этимологический словарь татарского языка [Tatar etymological dictionary] (in Tatar), volume I, Kazan: Magarif-Vakyt, →ISBN, page 267