угсаа
Mongolian
Etymology
From Classical Mongolian ᠤᠭᠰᠠᠭᠠ (uɣsaɣ-a, “royal family”), similar but hard to connect with Manchu ᡠᡴᠰᡠᠨ (uksun) with the same meaning.
Separable into уг (ug, “origin”) + *-саа (*-saa), but the latter part is not found as a suffix elsewhere.
It could be speculated that it represents an older ablative form, compare Buryat угһаа (ughaa, “previously, in the past”).
Noun
угсаа • (ugsaa)
- ancestry, origin, descent
- (historical) dynasty
- breed, strain
Derived terms
- угсаатан (ugsaatan, “ethnicity”)