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 • (kıtat) (Allaikha, Upper Kolyma, Middle Kolyma, Lower Kolyma, Sakkyryr, Viliui, Upper Yana)
- (geography) warm land in the south where birds migrate to for winter
- кытат кыыла ― kıtat kııla ― migratory birds
- кытат чуора ― kıtat cuora ― crow
Declenaion
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