Proto-Turkic: *[k]Ebŕe
Meaning: shoulderblade
Russian meaning: лопатка
Turkish: kebze 'shoulderblade, augury'
Tatar: kɛwsɛ 'tree stem'
Middle Turkic: kebze 'shoulder' (Sangl.)
Azerbaidzhan: gäbzä 'handle'
Turkmen: kebze
Kazakh: kebze, köwzö (R)
Bashkir: kɛwδɛ 'body'
Gagauz: kebze
Karakalpak: kebze 'breast'
Comments: VEWT 245, EDT 905, Лексика 242-243. The quality of the initial velar is not quite clear: the Az. form perhaps preserves an archaism, while other Oghuz forms may be kypchakisms; otherwise its Altaic connections become more dubious. KKalp. kepše 'shoulderblade' quoted in VEWT means in reality 'a small shovel' (Russ. лопатка), from Pers. kapča = Osm. kepče 'ein grosser Löffel' (VEWT 254).
