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Russian
Etymology
A Mongolic borrowing, ultimately from Proto-Mongolic *sokar (“blind”) (whence Mongolian сохор (soxor)), which is often used with Proto-Mongolic *noman (“mole; vole; zokor”).
The forms recorded in the dialects are зо́кор (zókor) and со́кор (sókor). The literary form цо́кор (cókor) was probably transcribed according to German orthography from zokor found in Pallas's works.
Pronunciation
Noun
цо́кор • (cókor) m anim (genitive цо́кора, nominative plural цо́коры, genitive plural цо́коров)
- zokor (any of several Asiatic burrowing rodents native to Central Asia)
Declension
Descendants
(from the form зо́кор (zókor))
(from the form цо́кор (cókor))
References
- Anikin, A. E. (2000) “зокор”, in Этимологический словарь русских диалектов Сибири. Заимствования из уральских, алтайских и палеоазиатских языков [Etymological dictionary of Russian dialects of Siberia. Loan-words from Uralic, Altaic and Paleoasiatic languages] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow, Novosibirsk: Nauka, →ISBN, pages 213–214
- Anikin, A. E. (2000) “сокор”, in Этимологический словарь русских диалектов Сибири. Заимствования из уральских, алтайских и палеоазиатских языков [Etymological dictionary of Russian dialects of Siberia. Loan-words from Uralic, Altaic and Paleoasiatic languages] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow, Novosibirsk: Nauka, →ISBN, page 502
- Anikin, A. E. (2000) “цокор”, in Этимологический словарь русских диалектов Сибири. Заимствования из уральских, алтайских и палеоазиатских языков [Etymological dictionary of Russian dialects of Siberia. Loan-words from Uralic, Altaic and Paleoasiatic languages] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow, Novosibirsk: Nauka, →ISBN, page 632, redirecting to зокор, without explaining the ц-
- Dal, Vladimir (1863) “зокоръ”, in Толковый Словарь Живаго Великорускаго Языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 1st edition, volume 1, page 619b
- Nugteren, Hans (2011) Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation), Utrecht: LOT, page 462
- Pallas, Peter Simon (1776) “Mus aspalax”, in Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des rußischen Reichs, volume III (overall work in German and Latin), St. Petersburg: Academy Press, § 4*, page 692
- Pallas, Peter Simon (1811) “Spalax talpinus”, in Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica (in Latin), volume I, St. Petersburg: Academy Press, § 75, page 160
- Сетаров, Д. С. (1980) “Тюркизмы в русских названиях животного мира [Turkicisms in Russian names of the animal world]”, in Советская тюркология, number 1, page 26 of 8–27
- Филин, Ф. П., editor (1976), “зо́кор”, in Slovarʹ russkix narodnyx govorov [Dictionary of Russian Dialects] (in Russian), volume 11, Leningrad: Nauka, Leningrad branch, page 327