سېغىزخان

Uyghur

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *sagïsgan.^[1][2] Cognates with Turkish saksağan, Uzbek zag'izg'on.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seʁizχɑn/

Noun

سېغىزخان • (sëghizxan) (plural سېغىزخانلار (sëghizxanlar))

1. magpie

References

1. Clauson, Gerard (1972) “sağızğa:n”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 818
2. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*sagɨsgan”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Further reading

• Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN