seçä

Meaning:
sparrow

The earliest attested Oghuz form is seçä and lacks r; later sources show forms of the serçe type.

In modern languages

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Language Cognate
Turkmen serçe
Turkish (Azerbaijan) sərçə
Turkish (Türkiye) serçe
Salar sece
Gagauz The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Crimean The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Uyghur The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Uzbek seça
Kazakh The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Nogai The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Siberian Tatar The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Kyrgyz The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Altai The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Alan The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Kumyk The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Tatar The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Bashkir The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Tıva The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Khakas The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Sakha (Yakut, Dolgan) The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Khalaj The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Chuvash The cognate has disappeared from this language.

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Translations

German:
Sperling
Russian:
воробей
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
sərçə
Turkish (Türkiye):
serçe

  • Hendrik Boeschoten (2022) A dictionary of early middle Turkic p. 284
    sečä ‘sparrow’ (QA) [uzb.dial. sečä (Abdullaev 1961: 81)] / särčä (IM, MAn, KT-tkm, MG) / särč̨ä (TZ-tkm) | sečäk (KA) / säčäk ‘sparrow’ (MAn, QAt) / čäčäk (QA) [uzb.dial. čäčäk]
  • Gerard Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish p. 795a
    D seçe: ‘a sparrow’; prob. a Dev. N. fr. seç- in the sense of (an animal) ‘which picks out (seeds, etc., on the ground)’. As such Hap. leg., but survives as SW Az., Osm. serçe; Tkm. sérçe, in which the -r- is intrusive, as in serp- for sep-. Oğuz xi seçe: al-'uṣfūr ‘sparrow’ Kaş. III 219: xiv Muh.(?) al-'uṣfūr serçe: Rif. 175 (only): Tkm. xiii ditto serçe: (Kip. çıpçık) Hou. 10, 7: xiv ditto serçe: (-c-) (and çıpça:k) Bul. 11, 12: Osm. xviii sérçe, in Rūmi, metaph. ‘quick, impetuous’ (tand u tīz); sérçe parmak, in Rūmi, ‘little finger’, in Ar. xunṣur San. 251v. 8.
  • M Räsänen, I Kecskeméti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen p. 412a
    IM. osm. krm. serčä ’Sperling’, (>) čuv. śerźi ’Sperling’ Vgl. mtü. (oγuz) sačä ’Spatz’