иччи

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Plato (ancient Greece) and Sri Aurobindo (20th-century India) both held that each living organism contains a "seed" or idea of what it will grow up to express. Because, as we see, this belief is not limited to a particular time or place, it could conceivably explain the semantic shift below, from "spirit" to "embryo".

иччи • (icci)

1. (religion) spirit, soul

   See synonyms at кут (kut).

   уу иччитэ

   uu iccite

   a water sprite, a water spirit

   (what a Russian-speaker might call a водяной or vodyanoy)

2. (by extension, biology) embryo
3. owner, possessor

   ыт иччитин умнубат ― ıt iccitin umnubat ― a dog does not forget his owner