See tān-wa on Wiktionary
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"roman": "trɣwʾn",
"word": "𐽂𐽀𐼲𐼴𐼰𐼻"
},
{
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"lang_code": "zh",
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"roman": "chányú",
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"sense": "governor",
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}
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"word": "ᠳᠠᠷᠤᠭᠠ"
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"etymology_text": "Uncertain; possibly:\n* derived from a Proto-Yeniseian compound meaning \"Northern ruler.\" Compare Proto-Yeniseian *tewtɬ < [*tewk-atɬ] (“downriver; North”) and *[ɢej-]qan (“ruler, Khagan”, literally “big-ruler”), for the potential etyma.\n* derived from Proto-Iranian *tark- (“to speak, command”), from Proto-Indo-European *telkʷ-. He also compares a Saka title with the same semantic shift. Compare also Khotanese [script needed] (ttarkana) and Ossetian тӕрхон (tærxon).\n* or derived from a Turkic root meaning \"vast as the sky\", and compares *𐾀𐽰𐽾𐽲𐽰𐽺𐽹𐽰𐽲 (*tʾrqʾnmʾq /*tarḳan-/) and 𐾀𐽰𐽾𐽲𐽰𐽾𐽹𐽰𐽲 (tʾrqʾrmʾq /tarḳar-/). It should be noted however that the supposed Old Uyghur tarḳan- listed in her work is not found in Wilkens (2021), and Caferoğlu (1968) glosses tarḳan- as \"to feel embarrassed, to get tired of, to worry\". tarḳar-, meanwhile, is glossed by both as \"to expel, to distance oneself from something; to destroy, to expunge\". Doerfer, however, doubts a Turkic origin, due to the Turkic forms having an irregular plural.",
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"chanyu"
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"borrowed",
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],
"roman": "trɣwʾn",
"word": "𐽂𐽀𐼲𐼴𐼰𐼻"
},
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"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
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},
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}
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"word": "ᠳᠠᠷᠤᠭᠠ"
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"name": "cog"
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},
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}
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