Altaic etymology : Query result

Proto-Altaic: *si̯ằjrí

Nostratic: Nostratic

Meaning: nit, louse

Russian meaning: гнида, вошь

Turkic: *sirke

Mongolian: *sirke

Tungus-Manchu: *sire-

Korean: *hjǝ̀

Japanese: *sìrám(u)i

Comments: KW 360, АПиПЯЯ 73, 83, 87, 276 (confused with the reflexes of *si̯uru q. v.), Лексика 182, Whitman 1985, 168. In Turkic a secondary narrowing (*sirke < *serke or *si̯arke) occurred. Mong. may be < Turkic. In Kor. we have to suppose *si̯àjri > *hjǝ̀ (with tone modified because of contraction).

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