Proto-Turkic: *ạt(kɨ-)
Meaning: 1 handful 2 pinch(ful) 3 barb of the fish-fork hook
Russian meaning: 1 горсть, пригоршня 2 щепотка 3 бородка, зазубрина крючка остроги
Turkish: atɨm 2, atkɨ 'weft; wooden fork; strap on footwear, scarf'
Tatar: atqɨrɨ (dial.) 'cross-beam'
Uzbek: ɔtim 2
Azerbaidzhan: atGɨ 'cross-bar', atɨm 2
Turkmen: atɨm 2
Oyrat: atqaq 3
Chuvash: ɨdam 'armful'
Tuva: adɨm 1, atqaq 3, atpaq 'hanger for horse harness', atpaq-ta-l- 'to hitch on to smth.', atpaŋna- 'grasp (of a child)'
Kirghiz: atɨm 2
Comments: Егоров 344, Мудрак Дисс. 85, VEWT 31. If we exclude obvious loans from Mong. adqu-, all the other forms clearly fall into two types. 1) PT *ạtɨm 'handful, pinchful' 2) PT *Atkɨ- 'smth. hitched, clutching, clinging'. The latter (Tuva atkak) is linked in EDT 47 with OUygh. atqaq 'vikalpa'. There is a number of OUygh. Buddhist terms that can be derived from a stem meaning 'grasp, hitch': atqaq '1) vikalpa, attachment to the material world (whence borrowed in Mong. atqaɣ 'illusion, prejudice'), 2) viṣaya, 'idea, notion, subject', atqaq-lɨɣ 'appertaining to smth.', atqa-n- 'be connected, clinging to (the material world)', atqa-nč-sɨz 'devoid of sense perceptions', atqanɣu 'viṣaya', atqanɣu-luɣ 'correlated' (cf. (alquqa) atqanɣuluɣ tutǯaqlɨɣ 'correlated (with everything) (and) grasping (everything)'), see ДТС 68, EDT 47. This all seems to indicate a primary root *ạt- meaning both 'to cling, hitch on to smth., grasp' and 'a grasp, handful' (also 'armful' if we take into account the Chuv. meaning). Note that in Siberian languages this root (*ạt-ka-k) is additionally confused with the local word for 'gills' - which has a quite separate Altaic origin (see under *p`átà(kV) 'fish fin').
