Uyghur

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *tokï- (to hit, knock, strike).[1]

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (tokı-, to hit, knock), Karakhanid [script needed] (tokın-, to hit, bump into), Azerbaijani toxunmaq (to touch), Kazakh тоқылдау (toqyldau, to knock), Tuvan токкулаар (tokkulaar, to tap, knock), Turkish dokunmak (to touch), Uzbek toʻqinmoq (to touch).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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توقۇنماق (toqunmaq)

  1. to touch

References

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  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*tokɨ-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill