сонгино

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Mongolian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Compare also Old Turkic 𐰣𐰍𐰽‎ (soɣun), Turkish soğan, Chuvash сухан (suh̬an) and Bashkir һуған (huğan).

Noun[edit]

сонгино • (songino) (Uyghurjin spelling ᠰᠣᠩᠭᠢᠨ᠎ᠠ (songɣin-a))

  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], issue 15, pages 382-390.
  2. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) , “soːğun”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 812.
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