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Kalmyk
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-Mongolic *ebür. Cognate with Mongolian өвөр (övör) and Buryat үбэр (über).
Noun
өвр • (övr) (plural өврмүд)
- bosom
“Мордсн күүкнд нерәдсн дун”:Сәәхн заӊгта ээҗиннь, // Өвр деернь өсләв.- I grew up in the bosom of my good-tempered mother.
- (rare) southern or sunny side of a slope
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Proto-Mongolic *eber. Cognate with Mongolian эвэр (ever), Buryat эбэр (eber).
Noun
өвр • (övr) (plural өврмүд)
- horn
References
- Этимологический словарь монгольских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Mongolian Languages] (in Russian), Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2015
- A. Pozdneev (1911) “өвр”, in Калмыцко-русскій словарь [Kalmyk-Russian dictionary], Saint-Petersburg: Типографія императорской академіи наук