-саг

See also: саг and Appendix:Variations of "sag"

Mongolian

MongolianCyrillic
᠊ᠰᠠᠭ
(-sag)		-саг
(-sag)

Etymology

From Classical Mongolian ᠰᠠᠭ (sag), borrowed from Turkic, originally a combination of a desiderative verb suffix *-sa- and *-k. Compare Karakhanid اَرسَك (erseg, “nymphomaniac”) and Mongolian эрсэг (erseg, “nymphomaniac”).

Pronunciation

Suffix

-саг • (-sag)

  1. (forming adjectives out of nouns) fond of

Inflection

Vowel harmonic forms of -саг
back vowelfront vowel
unrounded-саг (-sag)-сэг (-seg)
rounded-сог (-sog)-сөг (-sög)

Derived terms

Mongolian terms suffixed with -саг
гэрсэг
махсаг
төмөрсөг

See also

  • -мсаг (-msag)
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