saksağan

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish صقساغان‎, صقسغان‎ (saksağan, “magpie”), from Proto-Turkic *sagïzgan (“magpie”).[1]

Cognate with Azerbaijani sağsağan, Gagauz saksaan, saksan, Kyrgyz сагызган (sagızgan), Southern Altai саҥыскан (saŋïskan), Kazakh сауысқан (sauysqan), Salar sıxsığan, etc.

Pronunciation
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Noun

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  1. magpie

Declension

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

References
  1. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*sagïsgan”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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