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Mongolian
Etymology
From Middle Mongol ᠰᠣᠭᠣᠩᠭᠢᠨ ᠠ (soɣonggin-a). A loanword from Proto-Turkic *sogan (“onion”) augmented with a suffix resembling Middle Mongol ᠭᠠᠨᠠ (-ɣana), ᠭᠡᠨᠡ (-gene) used in names of plants.[1][2]
Noun
сонгино • (songino)
- onion
Descendants
References
- ^ Poppe, Nicholas (1991) “On Some Suffixes of Plant Names in Mongolian”, in Zentralasiatische Studien, number 15, pages 382-390.
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “soːğun”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 812.