ᠬᠡᠢ

Middle Mongol

Alternative scripts

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Mongolic *kei.[1]

Noun

ᠬᠡᠢ (kei)

  1. wind

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

  1. ^ Nugteren, Hans (2011), Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation)‎[1], Utrecht: LOT, page 409

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)

  1. Mongolian spelling of хий (xii)

Further reading


  • ᠬᠡᠢ
    [kei]”, in Монгол хэлний их тайлбар толь [Dictionary of the Mongolian Language] (in Mongolian), Institute of Linguistics of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, 2016–present