küni

Khalaj

Perso-Arabic		کۆنی

From Proto-Turkic *küni (“co-wife”). Cognate with Turkish günü, Azerbaijani günü, Turkmen güni.

Dialectal forms

(Ahmadabad, Kharrab) IPA^(key): [ky̞nʏ]
(Chahak, Dermanak, Khvorakabad, Mehrzamin, Qarah Su, Sarahrud, Varsan, Zarnusheh) IPA^(key): [ki̞nɪ]
(Chahak, Hasanabad, Yengijeh) IPA^(key): [kini̞]
(Dermanak) IPA^(key): [ky̜nɪ]
(Feyzabad) IPA^(key): [kynɪ]
(Hezarabad, Kacha-ye Chahardeh, Naderabad, Qorqor, Sarband, Varsan) IPA^(key): [kinɪ]
(Kacha-ye Chahardeh) IPA^(key): [kiniː]
(Khaltabad, Mushakiyeh, Talkh Ab) IPA^(key): [kynʏ]
(Kharrab) IPA^(key): [ky̜nʏ]
(Mohsenabad) IPA^(key): [ki̞nʏ]
(Mujan) IPA^(key): [ki̞ni̞]
(Mujan, Shah Qoli) IPA^(key): [kɪnɪ]
(Sadabad) IPA^(key): [kɪni̞]
(Seft) IPA^(key): [ki̞ni]
(Sorkh Deh) IPA^(key): [kiniˑ]
(Vasheqan) IPA^(key): [kyni]
(Zarnusheh) IPA^(key): [kiˈnɪɾɪ] (inflected form attested only)

küni (definite accusative küniñ, plural künilər)

Doerfer, Gerhard (1980) Wörterbuch des Chaladsch (Dialekt von Charrab) [Khalaj dictionary] (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó
Doerfer, Gerhard (1987) Lexik und Sprachgeographie des Chaladsch [Lexicon and Language Geography of Khalaj] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, →ISBN
Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*güni”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill