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Bashkir
Etymology
From *erkin (“free; spacious”), derived from Proto-Turkic *erik (“strength, might, will, power”).
Cognate with
Old Uyghur (irkin, “a nobility title”);[1]
Kumyk эркин (erkin, “free”),
Kazakh еркін (erkın, “free”),
Southern Altai эркин (erkin, “freedom, liberty”), etc.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /irˈkɪ̞n/
- Hyphenation: ир‧кен
Adjective
иркен • (irken)
- spacious, roomy
- Antonyms: тар (tar), тығыҙ (tığıź)
- free, unconstrained, uninhibited
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 212