يزنا

Karakhanid

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Common Turkic *yeŕne. Cognate with Azerbaijani yeznə, Uzbek yezna, Bashkir еҙнә (yeźnə) and Tuvan честе (çeste).

Noun

يَزْنا (yaznʾ /yezne/)

  1. husband of an elder sister

References

  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yezne:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC

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