ᠬᠡᠢ
Middle Mongol
Alternative scripts
- (Arabic script) کِیی (kīy /kei/), کی (ky /kei/)
- (Han script) 克 (kè /kei/)
- (Phags-pa script) ꡁꡦꡠ (kʼeé /kei/)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Mongolic *kei.[1]
Noun
ᠬᠡᠢ (kei)
Descendants
- Central Mongolic:
- Daur: [script needed] (xəin)
- Southern Mongolic:
- East Yugur: [Term?] (ki:)
- Shirongolic:
- Bonan: [Term?] (ki)
- Dongxiang: [script needed] (kai)
- Kangjia: [Term?] (ke)
- Monguor:
- Mangghuer: [Term?] (ki:)
- Mongghul: [Term?] (kəi)
- Mogholi: [script needed] (kei)
- → Evenki: кэй (kəj)
References
Further reading
- D. Tumurtogoo, editor (2006), Mongolian monuments in Uighur-Mongolian script (XIII-XVI centuries) (Language and Linguistics monograph series; A-11), Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, page 440
- Poppe, Nicholas (1938), Mongolʹskij Slovarʹ Mukaddimat al-Adab[2] (in Russian), page 213
- D. Tumurtogoo, editor (2010), Mongolian monuments in ʾPhags-pa script (Language and Linguistics monograph series; 42), Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, pages 186, 156
- Haenisch, Erich (1939), Wörterbuch zu Mangḥol un Niuca Tobca’an (Yüan-Ch‘ao Pi-Shi) geheime Geschichte der Mongolen [Dictionary of the Secret History of the Mongols] (in German), Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, page 97
- Sanžejev, G. D.; Orlovskaja, M. N.; Ševernina, Z. V. (2016), Etimologičeskij slovarʹ mongolʹskix jazykov: v 3 t. [Etymological dictionary of Mongolic languages: in 3 vols.] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 113
Mongolian
Noun
ᠬᠡᠢ • (kei)
- Mongolian spelling of хий (xii)