јеҥе

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Southern Altai[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Turkic *yeŋe (“elder brother's wife”).

Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (jengä, “older male relative's wife”); Kazakh жеңге (jeñge), Kyrgyz жеңе (jeŋe), Uyghur يەڭگە (yengge), Khakas ниге (nige), Yakut саҥас (sañas, “older male relative's wife”).

Noun[edit]

јеҥе • (ǰeŋe)

  1. the wife of one's elder brother, cousin or other male blood relative (who is older than the speaker but younger than the speaker's parents)

References[edit]

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

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