yigine

Salar

Etymology

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (yiŋne), [script needed] (yigne), from Proto-Turkic *(y)igne (“needle”). Cognate with Turkish iğne.

Pronunciation

• (Chahandusi, Xunhua, Qinghai, Ili, Yining, Xinjiang) IPA^(key): [jiɣine]
• (Jiezi, Gaizi, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA^(key): [iɣni], [iŋne]
• (Chahandusi, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA^(key): [jiɣenæ], [jiɣinyr]
• (Chahandusi, Hanbahe, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA^(key): [jiɣinæ]
• (Ili, Yining, Xinjiang) IPA^(key): [jiɣne], [jiŋni]

Noun

yigine (3rd person possessive yiginesi, plural yigineler)

1. needle

References

• Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “yigine”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, pages 336, 338, 357
• Yakup, Abdurishid (2002) “yigine”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎^[1], Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 128