төндөк

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Bashkir

Төндөк.

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *tüŋlik (“smoke hole, venthole, opening”).[1]

Cognate with Karakhanid (tüŋlük, “hole”); Kazakh түндік (tündık, “wooden ring at the center of a yurt roof; hearth, fireplace”), Kyrgyz түндүк (tündük, “wooden ring at the center of a yurt roof”), Southern Altai тӱндӱк (tündük, “smokehole in the yurt”), Uzbek tuynuk (“hole, opening”), Uyghur تۈڭلۈك (tünglük, “smokehole in the yurt”), Turkmen tüýnük (“smokehole in the yurt”), Khakas түнүк (“smokehole”), Tuvan дүндүк (dündük, “smokehole in a yurt; zenith”), Yakut түннүк (tünnük, “window”); Chuvash тӗнӗ (tĕnĕ, “smokehole”).

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: төн‧дөк

Noun

төндөк • (töndök)

  1. in a yurt, a smokehole (smoke flap) at the center of the roof
  2. (by extension) venthole

References

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