赤那

Middle Mongol

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Mongolic *čïno.

Noun

赤那 (chì-nà /činō/).

  1. wolf
    • c. 13th century, Secret History of the Mongols 1a:
      迭額列騰格狸額扯札牙阿禿脫列克先孛兒帖赤那阿主兀
      dié-é-liè téng-gé-líé-é-chě zhá-yá-ā-tū tuō-liè-kè-xiān bó-ér-tiē chì-nà ā-zhǔ-wù
      /de’ere tenggeri-eče ǰaya’atu töreksen börte-činō aǰu’u/
      There was a bluish wolf which was born having [his] destiny from Heaven above

Further reading

  • 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
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