emcek

== Salar == === Alternative forms === emcik, emçük === Etymology === From Proto-Turkic *em-ček (“breast; nipple”) (earliest attested in 13th century), from Proto-Turkic *em- (“to suck”). Cognate with Kyrgyz эмчек (emcek), Southern Altai эмчек (emček), Kazakh емшек (emşek), Crimean Tatar emçek, Uzbek emchak, dialectal Turkish emcek, emcik, Turkmen emjek, Bashkir имсәк (imsək), etc. === Pronunciation === (Xunhua, Qinghai; Ili, Xinjiang) IPA(key): /emʝex/ (Hualong, Qinghai) IPA(key): /ent͡ɕix/ (Gansu) IPA(key): /emʝyx/ (Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): /emt͡ɕyx/ === Noun === emcek (3rd person possessive emciği, plural emcekler) breast ==== Declension ==== === References === Potanin, G.N. (1893), “эмджих”, in Тангутско-Тибетская окраина Китая и Центральная Монголия (in Russian), page 427 Poyarkov, Alexei; Ladygin, Vasiliy (1893), “эмчжех”, in “Салары. Этнографический очерк [The Salars: An Ethnographic Sketch]”, 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 Kakuk, S. (1962), “emdžix”, in “Un Vocabulaire Salar”, in Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae‎[2], volume 14, number 2, Akadémiai Kiadó, →ISBN, pages 173-196 Tenishev, Edhem (1976), “ÄMJÄX”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 300 Yakup, Abdurishid (2002), “emʝex, emʝiɣ-i”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎[3], Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 88 Ma, Chengjun; Han, Lianye; Ma, Weisheng (December 2010), “emjüx”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor, 撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 101 马伟 (Ma Wei) (2016), “emčüx, emjex, enčix, emjüx”, in 濒危语言——撒拉语研究 [Endangered Languages ​​- Salar Language Studies], 青海 (Qinghai): 青海师范大学 (Qinghai Normal University), Unpublished finalized project manuscript (国家社会科学基金项目结项稿, 定稿; National Social Science Fund of China), page 268