кашкала

Southern Altai

Etymology

From кашка (kaška) + ала (ala), from Proto-Turkic *kaĺčga + Proto-Turkic *āla.

Noun

кашкала • (kaškala)

  1. loon, diver

References

  • Räsänen, Martti (1969), Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 241
  • Levitskaja, L. S.; Dybo, A. V.; Rassadin, V. I. (1997), “ҚАШҒАЛДАҚ, ҚАШҚАЛА”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 5, Moscow: Jazyki russkoj kulʹtury, pages 351, 352