кытат

Yakut

Etymology

Apparently borrowed from Mongolic ᠬᠢᠲᠠᠳ (kitad, China). Compare Buryat хитад (xitad), Mongolian хятад (xjatad); Kalmyk китд (kitd), Tuvan кыдат (kıdat), Khakas хыдат (xıdat), Southern Altai кыдат (kïdat), etc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɨ.tɑt/
  • Hyphenation: кы‧тат

Noun

кытат • (kïtat) (Allaikha, Upper Kolyma, Middle Kolyma, Lower Kolyma, Sakkyryr, Viliui, Upper Yana)

  1. (geography) warm land in the south where birds migrate to for winter
    кытат кыылаkïtat kïïlamigratory birds
    кытат чуораkïtat čuoracrow

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

See also

References

  • P. S. Afanasiev, M. S. Voronkin, M. P. Alekseev (1976), “кытат”, in Диалектологический словарь якутского языка [Dialectological Dictionary of the Yakut Language] (in Russian and Yakut), Moscow: Nauka, page 140