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.
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
- 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
- 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)
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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"
cf. Mongolic ğar - handcf. WMo qarma- - rake up, gather togethercf. Manchu qarma- - protect, safeguard
- Kir. mömö "fruit flesh", cf. Uzbek meva, from Persian
