English
irbis
Irbis comes from Russian и́рбис ‘snow leopard’, and goes back to Proto-Common Turkic *irbiš.
- Proto-Common Turkicprehistoric (reconstructed)*irbišreconstructed
- Proto-Mongolicprehistoric (reconstructed)*irbisreconstructed
- Classical Mongolianmodernᠢᠷᠪᠢᠰ
- Russianmodernи́рбисírbis‘snow leopard’
- Englishearliest quotation 1893irbis
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Common Turkicprehistoric (reconstructed)*irbišreconstructed
- Proto-Mongolicprehistoric (reconstructed)*irbisreconstructed
- Classical Mongolianmodernᠢᠷᠪᠢᠰ
- Russianmodernи́рбисírbis‘snow leopard’
- Englishearliest quotation 1893irbis
Earliest quotation: 1893, John Martin Crawford, U.S. Consul General to Russia: “The tiger and the irbis (felis irbis) reach the…”
Every English word from Proto-Common Turkic *irbiš
Today it means
noun snow leopard (large feline mammal, Panthera uncia, native to mountain ranges of central Asia)
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Common Turkic *irbiš / irbis