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Southern Altai
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *yā(y) (“bow”). Cognate with Kazakh жай (jai), Kyrgyz жаа (jaa), Kumyk жая (jaya), Azerbaijani yay, Turkish yay, Turkmen ýāý, Uzbek yoy, Shor чачақ, Tuvan ча (ça), Western Yugur ya (“arrow”), etc.
Noun
јаа • (ǰaa)
- bow
References
- N. A. Baskakov, Toščakova N.A, editor (1947), “јаа”, in Ojrotsko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Oyrot-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: M.: OGIZ, →ISBN