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Bashkir
Etymology
Perhaps via Volga Turki from Ottoman Turkish بیوك (büyük, “big, large”), from Proto-Turkic *bedük (“big”) (compare Old Uyghur (bedük, “big, large”), Old Uyghur (beδük, “high”).), from
Proto-Turkic *bedü- (“to grow, become large”).
The Native Kypchak development from that Old Turkic root is biyik (see Bashkir бейек (beyek, “tall, high”) for more cognates).
Pronunciation
Adjective
бөйөк • (böyök)
- great
Бөйөк Ҡытай диуары.- Böyök Qıtay diwarı.
- The Great Wall of China.
References
- ^ Nadeljajev, V. M.; Nasilov, D. M.; Tenišev, E. R.; Ščerbak, A. M., editors (1969), Drevnetjurkskij slovarʹ [Dictionary of Old Turkic] (in Russian), Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, Nauka, page 91
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bEdü-k”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill.