Proto-Turkic: *kEmük
Meaning: 1 bone 2 spongy bone 3 cartilage
Russian meaning: 1 кость 2 губчатая кость 3 хрящ
Turkish: kemik 1
Tatar: kimek 2
Uzbek: kɔmik, gɛmik (dial.) 2
Oyrat: kēmik 3
Kirghiz: kemik 2
Kazakh: kemik 2
Noghai: kemik 2
Bashkir: kimek 2
Balkar: gemik 2
Gagauz: kemik 1
Karaim: kemɨk 1
Karakalpak: kemik 2
Kumyk: gemik 3
Comments: VEWT 251, EDT 722, ЭСТЯ 5, 36-38, Лексика 261-262. Turk. > Mong. kemik 'cartilage' (see Щербак 1997, 126; but the derivation of the Turk. form from *gemür- 'to gnaw' (v. sub *kĕ̀ma) is a folk etymology, although some contaminations were possible: Yak. kömürüö 'spongy bone' semantically continues *kemük, but formally is derived from *gemür-. MK has kemdi- 'to cut meat from the bones' and kemdük 'bone with meat cut off' - forms that may be related both to *kemük and *gemür-.
