saksağan
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Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ottoman Turkish صقساغان, صقسغان (saksağan, “magpie”), from Proto-Turkic *sagïzgan (“magpie”).[1]
Cognate with Azerbaijani sağsağan, Gagauz saksaan, saksan, Kyrgyz сагызган (sagızgan), Southern Altai саҥыскан (saŋïskan), Kazakh сауысқан (sauysqan), Salar sıxsığan, etc.
Pronunciation[edit]
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Noun[edit]
saksağan
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References[edit]
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*sagïsgan”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill