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Southern Altai
Etymology
From *šuŋqar (“falco”), probably from a Mongolic source, compare Mongolian шонхор (šonxor, “falco”).
Cognate with
Old Uyghur (šuŋqar, “Falco gyrfalco”);
Tatar шоңкар (şoñkar, “falcon”),
Kazakh сұңқар (sūñqar, “falcon”),
Kyrgyz шумкар (şumkar, “Falco rusticolus”),
Uzbek shunqor (“Falco rusticolus”).
Noun
шоҥкор • (šoŋkor)
- falcon
References
- N. A. Baskakov, Toščakova N.A, editor (1947), “шоҥкор”, in Ojrotsko-Russkij Slovarʹ , Moscow: M.: OGIZ, →ISBN