Altaic etymology : Query result

Proto-Altaic: *p`úńe

Nostratic: Nostratic

Meaning: hair; feather

Russian meaning: волос; перо

Mongolian: *hü-sü

Tungus-Manchu: *puńe-

Japanese: *pánái

Comments: ОСНЯ 3, 83-84, Цинциус 1984, 61-62, АПиПЯЯ 29-30, 112, 275, KW 460 (Mong. ~ TM); an alternative etymology of Poppe (Poppe 70: linking the TM form with Mong. ünegen 'fox' and Yak. ünügäs 'puppy') is obviously untenable. Cf. also Mong. *hö-dün 'feather' ( < *hön-dün ?). {For *hödün cf. rather TM forms: Ma. fulǵači, fulsuri, Ewn. huloŋ, hultukta, ТМС 2, 343, 344, 346.}