| Word | teŋri |
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| Meaning | god, sky, heaven |
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Could be a loan from Yenisseian *tɨŋgVr- ‘high’. See Georg S., Türkisch/Mongolisch tengri ‘Himmel, Gott’ und seine Herkunft. Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia, vol. 6, 2001. |
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Other words that might be of interest |
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| *bulut ‘cloud’, *āń(k) ‘moon, month’, *bus ‘steam, fog’, *jul-du-ŕ ‘star’, *gün(eĺ) / guńaĺ ‘sun, day, sunny place, sun-heat’ | |