Proto-Altaic: *pằgdì ( ~ p`-)
Meaning: to moisten, dip
Russian meaning: увлажнять, окунать
Comments: An Eastern isogloss. Turk. *bat- may be a contamination of this root with *pàt`á q. v. The Korean match is somewhat dubious semantically, unless one presumes a semantic development 'float' < 'be wet, flow'; this may be corroborated by apparently related (dialectal?) variants MKor. pàthắ- 'to strain, filter' and MKor. phjǝ́tì- 'to overflow'. Ramstedt (SKE 191) compares the TM forms with MKor. pằrằ- 'to plaster, smear', which is dubious (see *píla).
