Altaic etymology : Query result

Proto-Altaic: *č`áko

Nostratic: Nostratic

Meaning: many; be full, enough

Russian meaning: много; быть полным, достаточным

Turkic: *čok

Tungus-Manchu: *čak

Korean: *čhắ-

Japanese: *tákú-páp-

Comments: АПиПЯЯ 283. The comparison of PT *čok with Sino-Kor. čjok (SKE 39, AKE 7, EAS 63) should be, of course, rejected; on the other hand, the comparison of Kor. čhă- (a regular reduction < *čăhă-) with Mong. čad-, čas- in SKE 46 cannot explain the aspiration of č- in Korean. See further МССНЯ, 331.