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Turkish
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *čekn (“part of shoulder between the neck and shoulderblade”). Acc. to Clauson, it is derived from Proto-Oghuz *čig- (“to knot”), Turkmen çigmek. Cognate with Azerbaijani çiyin, Turkmen çigin.
Noun
çiğin (definite accusative çiğini, plural çiğinler)
- (anatomy) shoulder
Declension
References
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “çigin/çikin”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 415