чегертки

Southern Altai

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *čekürtke (“grasshopper, locust”). Cognate with Kazakh шегіртке (şegırtke), Kyrgyz чегиртке (cegirtke), Crimean Tatar sekirge, Bashkir сиңерткә (siñertkə), Tatar чикерткә (çikertkä), Azerbaijani çəyirtkə, Turkish çekirge, Tuvan шерги (şergi), etc.

Noun

чегертки • (čegertki)

  1. locust

Synonyms

  • чегерткиш (čegertkiš)

References

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

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