-саг

See also: саг and Appendix:Variations of "sag"

Mongolian

Mongolian	Cyrillic
᠊ᠰᠠᠭ (-sag)	-саг (-sag)

Etymology

From Classical Mongolian ᠰᠠᠭ (sag), borrowed from Turkic, originally a combination of a desiderative verb suffix *-sa- and *-k. Compare Karakhanid اَرسَك (erseg, “nymphomaniac”) and Mongolian эрсэг (erseg, “nymphomaniac”).

Pronunciation

(Ulaanbaatar) IPA^(key): /səɡ/

Suffix

-саг • (-sag)

(forming adjectives out of nouns) fond of

Inflection

Vowel harmonic forms of -саг

	back vowel	front vowel
unrounded	-саг -sag	-сэг -seg
rounded	-сог -sog	-сөг -sög

Derived terms

Mongolian terms suffixed with -саг

See also

-мсаг (-msag)

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