ташкын

Southern Altai

Etymology

From *tašqïn (“flood”), from Proto-Turkic *d(i)āĺ- (“to overflow”).

Cognate with Bashkir ташҡын (taşqın), Tatar ташкын (taşkın), Kazakh тасқын (tasqyn), Kyrgyz ташкын (taşkın), Khakas тасхын (tasxın), Shor ташқын, Uzbek toshqin, Uyghur تاشقىن (tashqin), Turkmen daşgyn, Azerbaijani daşqın (“flood”), etc.

Noun

ташкын • (taškïn)

  1. flood

References

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

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