Comments:KW 406, Владимирцов 154, Poppe 57, Miller 1981, 863 (Turk.-Jpn.). Despite Щербак 1997, 160, not borrowed in Turk. < Mong. It seems worth mentioning Evk. dial. tịko- `to die (of exhaustion), starve' - which may, however, be a derivative of tik- `to fall'.