тотты

Southern Altai

Etymology

Ultimately from Persian طوطی (tuti). Compare to Kyrgyz тоту (totu) and Kazakh тоты (toty).

Noun

тотты • (tottï)

1. parrot

References

• Radloff, Friedrich Wilhelm (1893–1911) Опыт словаря тюркских наречий – Versuch eines Wörterbuches der Türk-Dialecte [Attempt at a Lexicon of the Turkic Dialects] (overall work in German and Russian), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1206
• Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 491