ижек

Bashkir

Etymology

Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (üžik, syllable; letter), Karakhanid [script needed] (üžük, syllable), Tatar иҗек (icek, syllable), Tuvan үжүк (üžük, letter; alphabet).

Akhmetyanov suggests derivation from Middle Chinese (ji, letter, symbol, character).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [i.ˈʒɪ̞k]
  • Hyphenation: и‧жек

Noun

ижек (ižek)

  1. (linguistics) syllable
    Башҡорт телендә баҫым күпселек осраҡтарҙа аҙаҡҡы ижеккә төшә.
    Bašqort telendä baθïm küpselek osraqtarða aðaqqï ižekkä töšä.
    In the Bashkir language, the stress in most cases falls on the last syllable.

Declension

References

  • R. Akhmetyanov (2015). Etimologicheskiy slovar' tatarskogo yazyka. // An Etymological Dictionary of Tatar Language. Kazan: Magarif-Vakyt publishers, ISBN not specified. vol.1, p.295.
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