From Proto-Turkic *tǖp, Proto-Oghuz *dǖb-i.
- (Mengda, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): [tøvy]
- (Labian, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): [tøːven]
- (Ili, Yining, Xinjiang) IPA(key): [tyj]
dövü
- down, bottom
- Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “töven, tövü”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 522
- Yakup, Abdurishid (2002) “dyj”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon[1], Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 83