Proto-Altaic: *t`ằma ( ~ -o)
Meaning: to bestow, pay
Russian meaning: дарить, платить
Comments: Miller 1981, 857, АПиПЯЯ 275. A Tung.-Jpn. isogloss. Ramstedt (SKE 254) compares the TM root with different material (Kor. tam- 'to fill, put into' etc.), but we prefer this comparison (for Kor. tam-, Manchu tama-, tami- 'to collect' cf. rather Jpn. tum- 'to fill, put into', see *t`ámu).