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böt
a word from vocabulary
Sakha
by
Brigitte Pakendorf
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Innokentij Novgorodov
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Word form
böt
LWT meaning(s)
to hiccough
Analyzability
unanalyzable
Age
Proto-Turkic [19] (-3000–-500)
Loanword Information
Borrowed status
5. no evidence for borrowing
Comments
Popov (1986: 98) compares this with Old Turkic bök ‘eat.one’s.fill’; the semantic link is via a Sakha idiom ‘hiccough from good food’ meaning ‘live well, not go hungry’.
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