бейек

бейек

Bashkir

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bedük (“big; tall”)[1].Doublet of бөйөк (böyök).

Cognate withOld Turkic [script needed] (bedük, “big”),Old Uyghur pʾdwk (bedük, “big”);Tatar биек (biyek, “high, tall”),Kazakh биік (biık, “high, tall”),Karachay-Balkar мийик (miyik, “high, tall”),Kyrgyz бийик (biyik, “high, tall”),Southern Altai бийик (biyik, “high, tall”),Khakas пӧзік (pӧzìk, “high, tall”),Shor мӧзӱк (“high, tall”),Tuvan бедик (bedik, “high, tall”),Uzbek buyuk (“large, huge; tall”),Turkish büyük (“big”), etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bɪ̞ˈjɪ̞k]
• Hyphenation: бе‧йек

Adjective

бейек • (beyek)

1. high, tall

Antonyms

• тәпәш (täpäş), тәпәшәк (täpäşäk)

References

1. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*bEdü-k”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill.