быу

Bashkir

Быу.

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *būg (“steam”).[1]

Cognate with Karakhanid بُو (bū, “steam”); Kazakh бу (bu, “steam”), Kyrgyz буу (buu, “steam”), Southern Altai буу (buu, “steam”), Uzbek bugʻ (“steam”), Turkmen bug (“steam”), etc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [bɯ̞w]
  • Hyphenation: быу (one syllable)

Noun

быу • (bıw)

  1. steam

Declension

Synonyms

References

  1. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*būg”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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