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Southern Altai
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *yāyïn (“catfish, sheat-fish; salmon”).
Cognate with
Tatar җәен (cäyen, “catfish”),
Kazakh жайын (jaiyn, “catfish”),
Nogai яйын (yayın, “catfish”),
Kumyk яйын (yayın, “catfish”),
Kyrgyz жайын (jayın, “catfish”),
Bashkir йәйен (yəyen, “catfish”),
Chuvash ҫуйӑн (śujăn, “catfish”).
Noun
јайын • (ǰayïn)
- catfish
References
- comparative and historical grammar of Turkic languages. Lexicon, 2001, in Russian, 178 pages