Proto-Altaic: *pùnV ( ~ p`-, -o-)
Meaning: year, spring / summer
Russian meaning: год, весна / лето
Comments: EAS 53, 141, SKE 205, KW 286, 295, Poppe 11, 69, Цинциус 1984, 43. Despite Doerfer MT 143, Rozycki 78-79, the TM forms meaning 'time' are hardly < Mong. Cf. perhaps also Jpn. *pàrû 'spring' (if -ru is regarded as a suffix < *pUn-ra); see Whitman 1985, 188, 202, 211.
