Southern Altai

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *tümen. Cognate with Kyrgyz түмөн (tümön, ten thousand), etc. Also compare Mongolian түм (tüm, ten thousand, myriad).

Numeral

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тӱмен (tümen)

  1. ten thousand

See also

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References

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  • Čumakajev A. E., editor (2018), “тӱмен”, in Altajsko-russkij slovarʹ, Gorno-Altaysk: NII altaistiki im. S.S. Surazakova, →ISBN
  • N. A. Baskakov, Toščakova N.A, editor (1947), “тӱмен”, in Ojrotsko-Russkij Slovarʹ, Moscow: M.: OGIZ, →ISBN
  • Radloff, Friedrich Wilhelm (1893–1911) Опыт словаря тюркских наречий – Versuch eines Wörterbuches der Türk-Dialecte (overall work in German and Russian), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1602