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бейек

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Bashkir

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Etymology

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

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (bedük, “big”), Old Uyghur 𐽼𐽰𐽸𐽳𐽷 (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

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  • IPA(key): [bɪ̞ˈjɪ̞k]
  • Hyphenation: бе‧йек

Adjective

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бейек • (beyek)

  1. high, tall

Antonyms

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References

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  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bEdü-k”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill.
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