Southern Altai

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *ters.

Compare to Old Uyghur [script needed] (ters); Bashkir тиреҫ (tireś, north), Kyrgyz тескей (teskey, northern slope), Azerbaijani tərs, Turkish ters, Turkmen ters, Uzbek terskay (northern slope, opposite), etc.

Noun

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терс (ters)

  1. opposite

References

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