yiğit
Betekenis (English)
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heroic
Synonyms
Frekwensie
Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/jiɣit/
Etimologie (English)
In summary
From Ottoman Turkish یگیت (yigit), from Proto-Turkic *yegit, *yigit, likely equivalent to yeğ (“preferable, better, best”) + -it, perhaps an old plural suffix. Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (yigit), Azerbaijani igid, Bashkir егет (yeget), Crimean Tatar yigit, Gagauz iit, Karaim igit, Karakalpak jigit, Kazakh жігіт (jıgıt), Kyrgyz жигит (jigit), Nogai йигит (yigit), Karachay-Balkar джигит (cigit), Southern Altai јиит (ǰiit), јигит (ǰigit), Tatar егет (yeget), Uyghur يىگىت (yigit), Uzbek yigit, Shor чиңет (čiŋet), Khakas чиит (çiit) etc.
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