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

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

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)

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

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 - hand~~
- ~~cf. WMo qarma- - rake up, gather together~~
- ~~cf. Manchu qarma- - protect, safeguard~~
Kir. mömö "fruit flesh", cf. Uzbek meva, from Persian