Mongolian etymology :

Proto-Mongolian: *seɣül

Altaic etymology: Altaic etymology

Meaning: oar

Russian meaning: весло, рулевое весло

Written Mongolian: seɣül (L 683)

Khalkha: sǖl

Kalmuck: sǖl

Comments: KW 342. The root is homonymous with *seɣül 'tail' (v. sub *si̯ū́bu), but certainly different historically; although now it is almost obsolete (but noted both in Lessing's and Ramstedt's dictionaries), it is certainly archaic. Mong. > Oroch sui(l), Nan. soịl, Neg. se(w)ul etc. (see ТМС 2, 120).

Altaic etymology :

Proto-Altaic: *si̯ā̀bo

Nostratic: Nostratic

Meaning: a k. of stick

Russian meaning: вид палки

Mongolian: *seɣül

Tungus-Manchu: *sōba

Japanese: *sàwùa

Comments: Cf. *sắp`í, *sèp`ù (with possible contaminations in Mongolian).

Tungus etymology :

Proto-Tungus-Manchu: *sōba

Altaic etymology: Altaic etymology

Meaning: bough, stick (for hanging kettle over fire)

Russian meaning: палка (для подвешивания над огнем котла, чайника)

Negidal: sōwa

Nanai: sogbin (Он.)

Comments: See ТМС 2, 103.

Japanese etymology :

Proto-Japanese: *sàwùa

Altaic etymology: Altaic etymology

Meaning: pole

Russian meaning: шест, жердь

Old Japanese: sawo

Middle Japanese: sàwò

Tokyo: saó

Kyoto: sáò

Kagoshima: saó

Comments: JLTT 518.

Nostratic etymology :

Eurasiatic: *[š]VbV

Meaning: spike, spear

Altaic: *si̯ā̀bo (cf. also *sibo )

Uralic: ? *śawŋa (cf. also *sowV(-nV) )

Kartvelian: Georg. šub- 'spear, lance'

Comments: *šVbV > Georg. šub-, Alt. *sibo; *si̯VbV > Alt. *si̯ā̀bo, Ur. *sowV; Ur. *śawŋa does not fit anywhere.

References: ND 2147 *šubyV (+incorr. Ural. + Arab.)

Uralic etymology :

Number: 956

Proto: *śawŋa

> Nostratic: > Nostratic

English meaning: pole, stick

German meaning: Stab, Stange

Finnish: sauva 'Stab, Stock, Knüttel', sauvoin 'Stange' ( > Saam. N sāvvuŏn^N 'Bootstange'), sauvakko 'Stecken, Stange' ( > Saam. N savvak 'each of the upright thin poles on the framework for hay'), sauvo- 'einen Kahn staken'

Estonian: sau (gen. saua) (dial., veralt.) 'Stab, Stock'

Saam (Lapp): čaw'gŋe -wŋ- (N) 'each of the more prominent poles in the roof of a lath gamme', čavbme, čavme (Friis) 'quatuor tigna incurvata, quorum bina in anteriore, bina in posteriore parte tugurii una cum canteriis tectum sustinent'

Khanty (Ostyak): sŏɣ (V), sĕw (DN) 'Stab', suw (O) 'Treibstange für Rentiere'

Mansi (Vogul): suw (So.) 'Stab', sūw (N) 'Treibstange, Skistab'

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