игег
Khakas
Alternative forms
- ігег (ìgeg)
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *ẹ̄ke- (“file”).
Cognates
Cognate with Tuvan эгээ (egee), Northern Altai эгэг (egeg), Shor эге (ege) / эгиг (egig), Kazakh егеу (egeu), Uzbek egov, Chagatai [script needed] (ägäk), Kyrgyz өгөө (ögöö), Southern Altai эгӱ (egü), Tatar игәү (igäw), Karachay-Balkar эгеу (egeu), Bashkir игәү (igəw), Kumyk эгев (egew), Uyghur ekek, Nogai эгев (égev), Turkish eğe (“file”).
Noun
игег • (igeg)
- file (tool)
Related terms
- кірее (kìree)
References
- Sevortjan, E. V. (1974), “И:ҒЕ”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Moscow: Nauka, pages 326, 327, 328