yaqşi

Salar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yakšï. Compare to Southern Altai јакшы (ǰakšï), Kazakh жақсы (jaqsy), Azerbaijani yaxşı, Turkish yahşi, etc.

Pronunciation

• (Jiezi, Gaizi, Mengda, Daowei, Baizhuang, Xunhua, Qinghai, Ili, Yining, Xinjiang) IPA^(key): /jɑχʃi/

Adjective

yaqşi

1. good

References

• Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “jaxši”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 351
• Yakup, Abdurishid (2002) “yaqşi”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎^[1], Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 122