тьаак

Northern Altai

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yayŋak. Cognate with Khakas наах (naax), Shor наақ (naaq), Chulym нӓк (näk), Western Yugur yïnaq/ yinaq, Tuvan чаак (çaak), Crimean Tatar yanaq, Karaim janah, Karachay-Balkar жыякъ (jıyaq), Kumyk яякъ (yayaq), Kyrgyz жаак (jaak), Southern Altai јаак (ǰaak, “jaw”), Bashkir яңаҡ (yañaq), Tatar яңак (yañaq), Kazakh жақ (jaq), Salar yañax, Azerbaijani yanaq, Turkish yanak, Turkmen ýaňak, etc.

Noun

тьаак • (tʹaak)

  1. cheek

References

N. A. Baskakov, editor (1985), “тьаак”, in Severnyje Dialekty Altajskovo( Ojrotskovo) Jazyka- Dialekt Lebedinskix Tatar-čalkancev(kuu-kiži) [Northern Altai language-Dialect of Chelkan], Moskva: glavnaja redakcija vostočnoj literatury, →ISBN

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