View source for Turkic words with mysterious etymologies

This page is here to collect words which do not seem to go back to Old Turkic and do not obviously come from a major contact language.

== Kazakh words ==
* ayna - mirror
* awdar- - flip over, translate
* deŋgey - level
* qarmaq - fishing pole (cf. Kyrgyz qarma- below)
* şeşe - mother
* täwlik - day (24-hour period, not day time)
* sät - fortune (also 'moment', obvs ← Arabic)
* usta- - hold
* säbiy - baby
** cf. Ottomon sabi
** cf. Ossetian sabi
** cf. Kurmanji sava
** cf. Bashqort sabıy

== Kyrgyz words ==
''See also [[Kyrgyz words of Persian origin without Tajik cognates]].''
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=== Nouns ===
* borbor - center
* topoz - yak
* sırğa - earring(s)
* söykö - earring(s)
** cf. Manchu ''suihe'' - ear of grain; tassle, crest; end of whip
** cf. Manchu ''suihun'' - a large earring used by men
** cf. Khamnigan Mongol ''sīke~sēke/sıke'' - earrings
* momposuy - candy
* juurqan - blanket
** cf. Manchu jurhu - coloured coarse linen cloth
* döŋ - hill
* çaŋ - dust
* çaarçıq - fawn
* çöntök - pocket
** cf. Evenki ''čēmpu'', ''čemtu'', ''čempuli'', ''čompuli'' - sack
** cf. Manchu ''čontoho'' - a hole or gap in wall or dike
*** (''čontohojombi'' - form a hole or gap)
* şakek - ring (jewelry)
* qoqo - Adam's apple
* şeyşep - sheet
* ibelik - rolling pin
** ?<*ibe ?cf. Proto-Germanic *''hlaibaz'' "bread"
* deŋgeel - level (n.)
* çöpürök - fabric
** cf. Old Uyghur ''çopra'' - rags
** cf. Monoglic ''čoɣuda-sun'' - rags
* toqoy - forest
* ayna - powder
* qılım - century
** ?cf. qıl - do
* bağelek - cuff
** cf. Turkic ''bağ-'' - tie (Kyrgyz ''boo'', ''bayla-'')
* çeke - forehead (cf. çoqu - top of head)
** cf. Middle Mongolian ''heki''/''hikin'' - head/front
** cf. Middle Mongolian ''čoqu''
*** cf. Shary Yoghur ''šəgən'' - head
*** cf. Khamnigan ''tsoxo'' - forehead
** cf. Manchu ''šeŋgin'' - forehead
* qaqı(m)gül - dandelion
* bata - blessing
* mamı - [hitching] post
* jubay - member of a pair, spouse
** cf. jup - even number, pair (from Persian?)
** cf. Manchu ''juwe'' - two
* qaqım - dandelion
** cf. Uzbek ''qoqi''
* çordon - center (of city or spring)
** cf. Latin ''centrum'' ← Greek ''kéntron'' (*ʦentro → *çontr → *çondər → *çordən)
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=== Adjectives and Adverbs===
* çoŋ - big
* çooçun - unfamiliar (person)
* mıjıqıy (adj) - killjoy
* çaq - perfect-fitting
** cf. Manchu ''ciki'' - fit exactly
* qooz - pretty (for inanimate things)
** cf. Mongolic ''ğo'a''/''ğoya'' - pretty
** cf. Manchu ''χojo'' - pretty
* qoqus(tan) - suddenly
* melüün - warm (air)
** cf. Mongolic ''bülegen'' - warm (liquid)
* tataal - complicated, complex
* jupun/jupunu - simple, light/thin (about clothes)
** cf. Old Turkic ''yupqa/yuvqa/yuvğa/yuqa'' (kg. juqa) - thin
** cf. Mongolic ''jöb-xön'' - simple (← jöb - correct)

=== Verbs ===
* mıjı(q)- - squeeze
** cf. Khamnigan Mongol - bajūxu (bajū-)
* oodar- - flip over
* taarın- - be/get offended
** cf. Manchu ''tarud-'' - chatter, talk nonsense, talk back
* çurqa- - run
** cf. Manchu ''çurxu-'' - for a road to go a distance
* qorot- - waste
** cf. Manchu ''qoro'' - loss, damage
* çoy- - stretch
* çayqa- - rinse (baş çayqa- - shake head) 
** cf. (kaz) şayqa- - shake

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== Proposed etymologies ==
Words on the above lists for which potential etymologies are discovered should be moved here.
* Kir. ''köynök'', Kaz. ''köylek'', etc. "shirt" appears to be from Turkic ''köŋil'' "shirt" +AK 
* Kir. ''kelesoo'' "crazy/stupid", related to Persian ''kal(l)a'' "head" + Turkic ''soo'' "healthy/sober" ?
* Kir. ''qarma'''- "grab, hold", related to Old/Middle Turkic ''qarva''-/''qarba''- "grope", cf. Turkish ''kavra''-, Yeniseian *''qarba''- - "grab"
** <s>cf. Mongolic ''ğar'' - hand</s>
** <s>cf. WMo ''qarma-'' - rake up, gather together</s>
** <s>cf. Manchu ''qarma-'' - protect, safeguard</s>
* Kir. ''mömö'' "fruit flesh", cf. Uzbek ''meva'', from Persian


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