Yakut

//jəˈkuːt// name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One of a Siberian people who speak a Turkic language, and live in the Lena river basin.
  2. 2
    the Turkic language spoken by the Yakut wordnet
  3. 3
    a member of a Turkic people of northeastern Siberia (mainly in the Lena river basin) wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The language of these people.

Synonyms

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englishlanguagesakhasakhayakut language

Example

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"My dream is to study Yakut in Yakutsk."

Etymology

From Russian яку́т (jakút), from Proto-Turkic *yaka (“collar; edge”). Related to Yakut саха (saqa) via earlier *čaqa < *ǰaqa. Compare Turkish yaka (“collar”). The ending -ут possibly contains the Mongol plural suffix; compare Buryat яхад (jaxad, “Yakuts”).

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Yakut knife

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