سایغاق
Chagatai
Etymology
Cognate with Karaim suhak.
Noun
سایغاق (saiɣak)
- a kind of chamois
Descendants
- → Middle Russian: сайгакъ (sajgak)
- Russian: сайга́ (sajgá), сайга́к (sajgák)
- → English: saiga
- Russian: сайга́ (sajgá), сайга́к (sajgák)
References
- Radloff, Friedrich Wilhelm (1911) Opyt slovarja tjurkskix narěčij – Versuch eines Wörterbuches der Türk-Dialecte [Attempt at a Lexicon of the Turkic Dialects] (in German and Russian), volume IV, Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 222
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “сайга”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress