قېيىق

Uyghur

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kiayguk.[1][2] Cognates with Turkish kayık, Southern Altai кайык (kayïk).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /qejiq/

Noun

قېيىق • (qëyiq) (plural قېيىقلار (qëyiqlar))

  1. small boat; caique

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kayğuk”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 676
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*K(i)aj-guk”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Further reading

  • Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN
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