агай

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Dolgan

Adverb

агай (agaj)

  1. only, exclusively

Udmurt

Etymology

Borrowed from a Turkic language, from Proto-Turkic *āka. Compare Tatar агай (ağay) and Bashkir ағай (ağay).

Pronunciation

Noun

агай (agaj)

  1. older brother
  2. uncle

Declension

Coordinate terms

  • апай (apaj, older sister, aunt)

Derived terms

nouns

References

  • L. E. Kirillova, L. L. Karpova, editors (2008), “агай”, in Удмурт-ӟуч кыллюкам [Udmurt-Russian dictionary], Izhevsk: Удмуртский институт истории, языка и литературы УрО РАН, →ISBN, page 25
  • T. V. Voronova, T. A. Poyarkova, editor (2012), Удмурт-ӟуч, ӟуч-удмурт кыллюкам [Udmurt-Russian, Russian-Udmurt dictionary] (overall work in Russian), Izhevsk: Книжное издательство «Удмуртия», →ISBN, page 7
  • Yrjö Wichmann, Toivo Emil Uotila (1987) Mikko Korhonen, editor, Wotjakischer Wortschatz [Votyak Vocabulary] (Lexica Societatis Fenno-Ugricae; Volume 21) (overall work in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen Seura, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 3