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Proto-Korean: *čɨ́mɨ́n

Altaic etymology: Altaic etymology

Meaning: thousand

Russian meaning: тысяча

Middle Korean: čɨ́mɨ́n

Comments: Nam 437.

Proto-Altaic: *či̯ùmi

Meaning: thousand

Russian meaning: тысяча

Turkic: *Tümen

Korean: *čɨ́mɨ́n

Japanese: *ti

Comments: SKE 38. Despite TMN 2, 641 the Turk.-Kor. parallel seems quite acceptable. Jpn. *ti reflects a suffixed form *či̯um(i)-gV.

Proto-Turkic: *Tümen

Altaic etymology: Altaic etymology

Meaning: ten thousand; very much

Russian meaning: десять тысяч; очень много

Old Turkic: tümen (Orkh., OUygh.)

Karakhanid: tümen (MK, KB), (Kypch. 14 cent.) dümen

Turkish: tümen

Tatar: tömɛn

Middle Turkic: tümen (Abush., Sangl.)

Uzbek: tuman

Uighur: tümän

Sary-Yughur: tü̆men (ЯЖУ)

Turkmen: tümen (arch.)

Oyrat: tümen

Yakut: tümän

Tuva: tümen

Kirghiz: tümön

Karaim: tümen, kimen, timen

Comments: VEWT 504, EDT 507-508, Лексика 574-575. In general we agree with Doerfer's arguments (TMN 2, 632-642: the Turkic word is the source of Persian tūmān '10000', not vice versa, although in some cases the word was borrowed back into Turkic (in particular: Az. tümän, Khal. timän 'a Persian coin', KBalk., Kum. tümen '10 roubles'); the Tokharian word, whose IE source is highly dubious, is most probably < Turkic; a Chinese source is extremely dubious). Turk. > Mong. tümen (see TMN 2, 641, Щербак 1997, 160), whence Evk. tumen etc., see Doerfer MT 78. Weak evidence of initial voice (*d- should be expected in PT) may be due to later cultural interborrowing.

Proto-Japanese: *ti

Altaic etymology: Altaic etymology

Meaning: thousand

Russian meaning: тысяча

Old Japanese: ti

Middle Japanese: ti

Tokyo: chi

Comments: JLTT 546.

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