тӱӱме

Southern Altai

Etymology

From *tügme (“button”), from Proto-Turkic *düg- (“to tie in a knot; make a loop”).

Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (tügmä, “button”); Kazakh түйме (tüime, “button”), Kyrgyz түймө (tüymö, “button”), Uzbek tugma (“button”), Uyghur تۈگمە (tügme, “button”), Crimean Tatar dögme (“button”), Turkish düğme (“button”), etc.

Noun

тӱӱме • (tüüme)

1. tying, knitting, tie

References

L. T. Rjumina-Syrkaševa, editor (1995), “тӱӱме”, in Teleutsko-russkij slovarʹ [Teleut–Russian Dictionary], Kemerovo: N. A. Kučigaševa, →ISBN