Proto-Turkic: *öŋ / *oŋ
Meaning: 1 front, East 2 exterior, color, face
Russian meaning: 1 перед, восток 2 внешняя сторона, цвет, лицо
Old Turkic: öŋ 1, 2 (OUygh.)
Karakhanid: öŋ 1, 2 (MK)
Turkish: öŋ 1
Tatar: uŋ 1
Uzbek: ọŋ 1
Uighur: öŋ 1, 2
Azerbaidzhan: öŋ 1
Turkmen: öŋ 1
Khakassian: öŋ 1, 2
Oyrat: öŋ 1, 2
Halaj: ej
Chuvash: um 'breast' (if different from om 'front', q. v. sub *āl)
Yakut: öŋ 'inside of clothes', 2
Tuva: oŋ 'shape', öŋ 2
Kirghiz: öŋ 2
Kazakh: oŋ 1, öŋ 2
Noghai: öŋ 1
Bashkir: uŋ 1
Gagauz: jön 1
Karaim: öŋ 1
Karakalpak: öŋ 1, 2
Kumyk: oŋ 1
Comments: EDT 167-168, VEWT 362, 372, ЭСТЯ 1, 532-535, Stachowski 199-200, Ашм. III, 232. The words for 'front' and 'colour, face' are usually treated as different roots (e.g. in EDT, ЭСТЯ), but it is hardly possible to separate them phonetically (the variants *oŋ and *öŋ do not seem to be semantically distributed); the semantic shifts (*'front' > 'face' > 'colour') are quite natural.
