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Southern Altai
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *yeŋe (“elder brother's wife”).
Cognate with
Old Uyghur (jengä, “older male relative's wife”);
Kazakh жеңге (jeñge),
Kyrgyz жеңе (jeŋe),
Uyghur يەڭگە (yengge),
Khakas ниге (nige),
Yakut саҥас (sañas, “older male relative's wife”).
Noun
јеҥе • (ǰeŋe)
- the wife of one's elder brother, cousin or other male blood relative (who is older than the speaker but younger than the speaker's parents)
References
N. A. Baskakov, Toščakova N.A, editor (1947), “јеҥе”, in Ojrotsko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Oyrot-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: M.: OGIZ, →ISBN