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Altaic etymology :
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Proto-Altaic: *ńi̯àmi
Meaning: trace
Russian meaning: след
Comments: A Western isogloss.
altet-meaning,altet-rusmean,altet-turc,altet-mong,altet-tung,altet-reference,
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Turkic etymology :
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Proto-Turkic: *jam
Meaning: post station
Russian meaning: почтовая станция
Old Turkic: jam (late OUygh.)
Turkish: jam (Red.)
Tatar: jam (possibly from Russian)
Comments: VEWT 183, EDT 933. Turk. > MMong. ǯam 'post station', WMong. ǯam 'way, street, road' (hardly vice versa; see the discussion in Щербак 1997, 195). Mong. > Man. ǵamun, Nan. jamõ, Ul. jamụ(n), see Doerfer MT 142 (with a strange initial reflex, suggesting rather an unattested Mong. variant *jam; Chinese origin suggested by Doerfer TMN 4, 110-118 is improbable - for purely phonetical reasons: the actual Middle Chinese form was not "*g̀am oder ähnlich", as suggested ibid., but 站 ṭém; even the later fricativized shape čam (Zhongyuan yinyun) can hardly have yielded Mong. ǯam, to say nothing of the TM variants with j-). turcet-prnum,turcet-meaning,turcet-rusmean,turcet-atu,turcet-trk,turcet-tat,turcet-chg,turcet-reference,
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Mongolian etymology :
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Proto-Mongolian: *ǯim
Meaning: path, trace
Russian meaning: тропинка, след
Written Mongolian: ǯim (L 1056) Khalkha: ǯim
Buriat: žem
Ordos: ǯim
monget-prnum,monget-meaning,monget-rusmean,monget-wmo,monget-hal,monget-bur,monget-kal,monget-ord,
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Tungus etymology :
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Proto-Tungus-Manchu: *ńiam-
Meaning: 1 old trace 2 to trace (an animal)
Russian meaning: 1 след (старый) 2 распутывать следы (зверя)
Evenki: ńē̂mirī 1
Udighe: ńāma- 2
Comments: ТМС 1, 631, 637. tunget-prnum,tunget-meaning,tunget-rusmean,tunget-evk,tunget-ude,tunget-reference,
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