赛堪
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Kyakala
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ultimately from Proto-Mongolic *saxïkan. Cognate with Manchu ᠰᠠᡳᡴᠠᠨ (saikan, “beautiful”). Compare also Mongolian сайхан (sajxan).
Adjective
[edit]赛堪 (saikan)
References
[edit]- Andreas Hölzl (2019) “A wedding ceremony of the Kyakala in China: Language and ritual”, in International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction[1], volume 16, page 113