Proto-Turkic: *sAgut
Meaning: dishes, vessel; instrument
Russian meaning: посуда, сосуд; орудие, инструмент, утварь, сбруя
Turkish: savut 'weapon'
Tatar: sawɨt
Middle Turkic: sawut, saut (R.), saqɨt (MA)
Uzbek: sɔwut
Uighur: sawut
Turkmen: sowut (arch., dial.)
Kirghiz: sōt
Kazakh: sawɨt
Noghai: sawɨt
Bashkir: hawɨt
Balkar: sawut
Karaim: sawut, saɣɨt
Karakalpak: sawɨt
Kumyk: sawut
Comments: VEWT 393-394. It may be possible to follow Räsänen and to derive the form *sagu-t from *sagu 'corn measure; pail' (see VEWT ibid., ЭСТЯ ibid., EDT 805), which would speak in favour of PT *-g-. On the other hand, cf. Karakh. savdɨč 'a basket plaited from twigs' (EDT 785). The specific synonymy 'vessel, dishes' : 'instrument, gear' and even 'weapon' (cf. KBalk. sawut 'weapon', MTurk. (Zenker) sawut 'arrow with long sharp end', Bashk. dial. ɵawɨt 'hunting knife') may in fact reflect a contamination with a quite different root, see *sag[u]n 'arrow, arrow head'.
