From Old Anatolian Turkish بینی (bäyni, “brain”), from Proto-Turkic *bẹńi (“brain”). Cognate with Turkish beyin. Cognates Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (méŋi, “brain”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (méyi, “brain”), Azerbaijani beyin (“brain”), Bashkir мейе (meye, “brain”), Chagatai [script needed] (meyin, “brain”), Crimean Tatar miy (“brain”), Chuvash миме (mime, “brain”), Kazakh ми (mi, “brain”), Khakas мии (mii, “brain”), Kipchak [Arabic needed] (meyi, “brain”), Kyrgyz мээ (mee, “brain”), Southern Altai мее (mee, “brain”), Tatar ми (mi, “brain”), Turkmen beýin, beýni (“brain”), Tuvan мээ (mee, “brain”), Uyghur مىڭە (mi'nge, “brain”), Uzbek miya (“brain”), Yakut мэйии (meyii, “brain”).