Proto-Altaic: *t`i̯ṑlo
Meaning: to shine, reflect
Russian meaning: светить, отражаться
Comments: The Jpn. diphthong is not quite clear. It is interesting also to mention Turkic data: cf. Karakh. tolun in tolun aj 'full moon' (MK, see EDT 501), with tolun formally being a participle from *dol- 'to be filled', but in fact used only in this phrase in the sense of "full moon". Modern Turkish has dolunaj 'full moon' with d- (just as in dol- 'be filled'), but the verb tolun- 'to become full (of moon)' - which would correspond quite regularly to PA *t`i̯ṑlo. One should reckon with a possibility of rather archaic contamination in Turkic (since most languages do not distinguish between the reflexes of *t- and *d-).
