саҥыскан

Southern Altai

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *sagïsgan (“magpie”).

Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (sağïzğan, “magpie”); Tatar саескан (sayeskan), Kazakh сауысқан (sauysqan), Kyrgyz сагызган (sagızgan), Kumyk савусгъан (sawusğan), Uyghur سېغىزخان (sëghizxan), Khakas саасхан (saasxan), Shor саасқан, Crimean Tatar savusqan, Turkish saksağan, Azerbaijani sağsağan (“magpie”), etc.

Noun

саҥыскан • (saŋïskan)

  1. magpie

References

N. A. Baskakov, Toščakova N.A, editor (1947), “саҥыскан”, in Ojrotsko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Oyrot-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: M.: OGIZ, →ISBN

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