мысық

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Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic مىسىق
Cyrillic мысық
Latin mysyq
Yañalif mьsьq
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Wikipedia kk

Etymology

From Common Turkic *pišik (cat).

The word may stem from contamination with mechin ("monkey") from Mongolic languages. The suffix -k in forms like pish-ik/mish-ik is a diminutive marker, possibly borrowed from Iranian Kurdish piši/pišila or Pashto rizō. Scholars also link the base mish- to Persian mush ("mouse, rat") or Mongolic mis/mił.

Possibly borrowed from Sogdian, as suggested by K. Menges, with parallels in Mongolic.

Onomatopoeic origins are suggested by A.M. Shcherbak, with pyshyk derived from pysh (used to call cats). Mongolic forms like mis/müs may have influenced Turkic terms like Altai miy-ak ("cat, tiger") and Tuvan miy-yt ("cat"). Diminutive forms, like Old Uyghur mish-kich and Uzbek pishә, also show Turkic influence.[1]

Cognate with Turkish pisi, Kyrgyz мышык (mışık), Uzbek mushuk, Azerbaijani and Turkmen pişik, Tatar песи (pesi), песәй (pesäy), Karakalpak pıshıq, Kumyk мишик (mişik), Uyghur مۈشۈك (müshük)[2]

Noun

мысық (mysyq) (nominative plural мысықтар)

  1. cat, Felis catus

Declension

References

  1. ^
    2003, Ervand Sevortian, Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages: Common Turkic and Interturkic stems starting with letters «L», «M», «N», «P», «S», →ISBN, pages 116 — 118:
  2. ^ , Древнетюркский Словарь. Изд. 2 Е, Пересмотр. Астана, 2016. (p.374)