تمو
Karakhanid
Etymology
Inherited from Common Turkic *tamu (“hell”) ultimately borrowed from Sogdian 𐽂𐼺𐼴 (tmw, “hell”) from Proto-Indo-Iranian *támHas (“darkness”).[1]
Cognate with Turkish tamu, Uzbek tamugʻ and Bashkir тамуҡ (tamuq).
Noun
تَمُو (tamū)
References
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “tamu:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 503
Further reading
- al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume III, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 234
Malay
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