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Bashkir
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *yeŋe (“elder brother's wife”).
Cognate with
Old Uyghur (jengä, “older male relative's wife”);
Kazakh жеңге (jeñge),
Kyrgyz жеңе (jeŋe), Southern Altai јеҥе (ǰeŋe),
Uyghur يەڭگە (yengge),
Khakas ниге (nige),
Yakut саҥас (sañas, “older male relative's wife”), Turkish yenge (“aunt-in-law, one's brother's wife”).
Pronunciation
Noun
еңгә • (yeñgə)
- the wife of one's elder brother, cousin or other male blood relative (who is older than the speaker but younger than the speaker's parents)
Declension
Declension of еңгә (yeñgə)
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 256