бейек

Bashkir

Etymology

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

Cognate with Old 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 (“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 (təpəş), тәпәшәк (təpəşək)

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.
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