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)

  1. (geography) warm land in the south where birds migrate to for winter
    кытат кыылаkıtat kıılamigratory birds
    кытат чуораkıtat cuoracrow

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