güye

See also: gūye and gūyé

Salar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *küńe. Cognate to Azerbaijani güvə, Gagauz güvä, Turkish güve, Turkmen güýe, etc.

Pronunciation

  • (Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): /kuje/, /kuji/

Noun

güye (3rd person possessive güyesi, plural güyeler)

  1. moth

References

  • 林 (Lin), 莲云 (Lianyun) (1992) “guje”, in 撒拉汉汉撒拉词汇 [Salar-Chinese, Chinese-Salar Vocabulary], 成都: 四川民族出版社, →ISBN, page 94
  • Ma, Chengjun, Han, Lianye, Ma, Weisheng (December 2010) “güyi”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor, 撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 129