сонгино

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Mongolian[edit]

MongolianCyrillic
ᠰᠣᠩᠭᠢᠨ᠎ᠠ
(soŋgin-a)
сонгино
(songino)

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Mongol ᠰᠣᠭᠣᠩᠭᠢᠨ ᠠ (soɣoŋgin-a). A loanword from Proto-Turkic *sogan (onion) augmented with a suffix resembling Middle Mongol ᠭᠠᠨᠠ (-ɣana), ᠭᠡᠨᠡ (-gene) used in names of plants.[1][2]

Noun[edit]

сонгино (songino)

  1. onion

Descendants[edit]

  • Manchu: ᠰᡠᠨᡤᡤᡳᠨᠠ (sunggina)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Poppe, Nicholas (1991) “On Some Suffixes of Plant Names in Mongolian”, in Zentralasiatische Studien[1], number 15, pages 382-390.
  2. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “soːğun”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 812.