düssek

Salar

Etymology

Cognate to Turkish dirsek.

Pronunciation

  • (Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): /tyʰsex/, /tyʰsix/
  • (Ili, Xinjiang) IPA(key): /tʰys/

Noun

düssek (3rd person possessive düssegi, plural düssekler)

  1. (anatomy) elbow
    Antonym: düz (knee)

References

  • Yanchuk, Mikola Andriyovich (1893) “голун дузеги”, in Этнографическое ОбозрѢніе: Императорскаго Общества Любителей Естествознанія, Антропологіи и Этнографіи [Ethnographical Review: Imperial Society of Lovers of Natural History, Anthropology and Ethnography]‎[1] (in Russian), Moscow: Publication of the Ethnographic Department, page 33
  • Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “TÜSSÄX, TÜSSİX”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 527
  • 林 (Lin), 莲云 (Lianyun) (1992) “tysex”, in 撒拉汉汉撒拉词汇 [Salar-Chinese, Chinese-Salar Vocabulary], 成都: 四川民族出版社, →ISBN, page 51
  • Yakup, Abdurishid (2002) “tys”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon[2], Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 170