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Southern Altai
Etymology
From *yetigän (“Ursa Major”), from Proto-Turkic Proto-Turkic *yẹt(t)i (“seven”).
Cognate with
Old Uyghur (jetigän, “Ursa Major”),
Tatar җидегән (cidegän, “Ursa Major”),
Nogai Етеген (Yetegen, “Ursa Major”),
Kyrgyz Жетиген (Jetigen, “Ursa Major”),
Khakas Чидіген (Çidìgen, “Ursa Major”),
Tofa Чеді Ӄан (“Ursa Major”).
Compare also
Kazakh жетіген (jetıgen, “a 7-stringed musical instrument”).
Noun
јетеген • (ǰetegen)
- Ursa Major
References
- Radloff, Friedrich Wilhelm (1893–1911) Опыт словаря тюркских наречий – Versuch eines Wörterbuches der Türk-Dialecte [Attempt at a Lexicon of the Turkic Dialects] (overall work in German and Russian), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 365