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Bashkir
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *ürk- (“to be afraid”).[1]
Cognate with
Old Uyghur (ürk-, “to startle (of sheep)”);[2]
Kyrgyz үркүү (ürküü, “to be frightened of”), Southern Altai ӱркӱӱр (ürküür), Uzbek hurkmoq, Uyghur ئۈركىمەك (ürkimek), Turkish ürkmek.
Verb
өркөү • (örköw) (intransitive)
- to startle, to flee away with fear (of animals)
References
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ürk-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Nadeljajev, V. M.; Nasilov, D. M.; Tenišev, E. R.; Ščerbak, A. M., editors (1969), Drevnetjurkskij slovarʹ [Dictionary of Old Turkic] (in Russian), Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, Nauka, page 626