yigine
Salar
Etymology
Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (yiŋne), [script needed] (yigne), from Proto-Turkic *(y)igne (“needle”). Cognate with Turkish iğne.
Pronunciation
- (Chahandusi, Xunhua, Qinghai, Ili, Yining, Xinjiang) IPA(key): [jiɣine]
- (Jiezi, Gaizi, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): [iɣni], [iŋne]
- (Chahandusi, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): [jiɣenæ], [jiɣinyr]
- (Chahandusi, Hanbahe, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): [jiɣinæ]
- (Ili, Yining, Xinjiang) IPA(key): [jiɣne], [jiŋni]
Noun
yigine (3rd person possessive yiginesi, plural yigineler)
- needle
References
- Tenishev, Edhem (1976), “yigine”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow: Nauka, page 336, 338, 357
- Yakup, Abdurishid (2002), “yigine”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon, Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 128