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Uyghur
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *katïr,[1] through reborrowing from Mongolian .[2] Cognate of Turkish katır, Azerbaijani qatır, and Tatar качыр (qaçır).
Pronunciation
Noun
خېچىر • (xëchir) (plural خېچىرلار (xëchirlar))
- mule
References
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*KAtɨr”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “katır”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 604
Further reading
- Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN