قېيىن

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Uyghur

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kadïŋ.[1][2] Cognates with Turkish kayın, Southern Altai кайыҥ (kayïŋ), Kyrgyz кайың (kayıŋ), Tofa ӄадыӈ (qadïŋ), Northern Altai кайынъ (kayïnʺ), etc.

Pronunciation

Noun

قېيىن (qëyin) (plural قېيىنلار (qëyinlar))

  1. birch (tree)

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kaḏıŋ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 602
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kadɨŋ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

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