Names of Cereals in the Turkic Languages - Wydział Filologiczny UJ

54 ovjos || Oatsovjosforms: ovjos Trkm.: RTrkmSetymology: as yet not discussedcommentary:This word is undoubtedly a borrowing from Russ. ovjós id. The initial o- supposablyindicates that it must have been borrowed from some dial. with an ‘okanye’ pronunciation,though it would be difficult to confirm this solution, as the Russ. dialectal texts,especially the older ones, do not render the actual sounding precisely. Another possibilitywould be to assume a partly graphical 35 borrowing. This, however, is definitelyless likely from the cultural-historical point of view.ovjotforms: ovjot (овëт) Tof.: RTofS, Stachowski, M. 1999a: 236etymology: as yet not discussedcommentary:This form is undoubtedly a borrowing from Russ. ovjós id. The final -t is supposablythe result of a common but not fully described and not fully predictable alternations ~ t, present in languages of various linguistic families across Siberia, including Tkc.(cf. Stachowski, M. 1999a for further bibliography).ovsaforms: ovsa Bšk.: Dmitrieva 1972etymology: 1972: Dmitrieva: < Russ. ovës ‘oats’commentary:This form was most probably borrowed from Russ. Gen. in the function of Part.Cf. prosa ‘millet’.sinir bozanforms: sinir bozan Ott.: R IV 696metymology: as yet not discussedcommenatry:This name is unlcear. Maybe it is a substantivised participle in the expression (birinin)sinirlerini bozmak ‘to annoy’? Such an explanation could be justified by the fact thatoats was often regarded as a weed.35 Or even a fully graphical one, if one takes into account that Russ. ë is usually printed as e.