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Uyghur
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *yēnik. Cognates with Karakhanid یَنِك (yenik, yenig), Turkish yeğni, yenik or yeyni (regional). Also *yeŋgü-l is derived to Bashkir еңел (yeñel), Tatar җиңел (ciñel), Kyrgyz жеңил (jeŋil), Southern Altai јеҥил (ǰeŋil), Kumyk енгил (yeñil).
Pronunciation
Adjective
يېنىك • (yënik)
- light, not heavy
- flighty, frivolous
- digestable
References
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yénik”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 950
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jeŋgü-l, jeŋi-k”, 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