инји

Southern Altai

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *jinǯü ~ *jenčü (“pearl”), from Sinitic 珍珠 (MC trin tsyu, “pearl”). See also. јинји (ǰinǰi)., Compare to Kyrgyz инжу (inju), etc.

Noun

инји • (inǰi)

  1. pearl

References

Verbickij, V. I. (1884) “инји”, in Словарь алтайского и аладагского наречий тюркского языка [Dictionary of Altaic and Aladag dialects of Turkic], Kazan, page 62

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