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Tuvan
Etymology
From Mongolic *muur (“onomatopoeia for purring”) + -тай (-tay, “adjectival suffix”), literally "purring (animal)". Cognate to Mongolian муур (muur), Dukhan муурдай.
Pronunciation
Noun
моортай • (moortay) (definite accusative моортайны, plural моортайлар)
- cat
Synonyms
References
Tatarincev, B. I. (2000–2008) “моортай”, in Monguš D. A., editor, Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tuvinskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Tuvan Language] (in Russian), Novosibirsk: Nauka