Southern Altai edit

Etymology edit

From *tegirmän (mill), from Proto-Turkic *tegir- (round, circle; to turn, to spin).

Compare with Bashkir тирмән (tirmən), Kazakh диірмен (diırmen), Kyrgyz тегирмен (tegirmen), Turkish değirmen, Azerbaijani dəyirman, Crimean Tatar degirmen (mill), Khakas тербен (terben), etc.

Noun edit

теермен (teermen)

  1. mill

References edit

N. A. Baskakov, Toščakova N.A, editor (1947), “теермен”, in Ojrotsko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Oyrot-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: M.: OGIZ, →ISBN