Turkic etymology : List with all references

Proto-Turkic: *T(i)āna-

Altaic etymology: Altaic etymology

Meaning: nostril

Russian meaning: ноздря

Tatar: tanaw

Khakassian: tanɨ̄

Yakut: tanɨ̄

Tuva: tanaq

Bashkir: tanau 'nose'

Comments: VEWT 460, Лексика 218. Because of late attestation borrowing from Mong. is not excluded; but it is not quite probable for phonetic reasons.

Altaic etymology :

Proto-Altaic: *t`ā́nV ( ~ -ē-) (?)

Nostratic: Nostratic

Meaning: nose, part of face round nose

Russian meaning: нос, часть лица вокруг носа

Turkic: *T(i)āna

Mongolian: *tanaɣa

Comments: Poppe 13, 69, АПиПЯЯ 289, KW 378, VEWT 460. A rather complicated case. Both Turkic and Mongolian forms are attested late, and can be borrowed from each other. If Mong. < Turk., then one could perhaps consider instead a possibility of comparing PT *T(i)āna with Mong. *taŋlaji 'palate' (whence again Chag. taŋlaj etc., see KW 379, VEWT 461-462, and Evk. taŋilai, see Doerfer MT 128). However, Mong. *taŋlaji may be alternatively compared with Turk. *damgak 'palate' (ЭСТЯ 3, 142; thus in Владимирцов 285, Лексика 230) - if one supposes a secondary assimilative change *t- > *d- in Turkic. PT *damgak 'palate; gills' may be, in its turn, alternatively compared with Evk. ǯalgama 'a piece of skin from deer's chin'. This knot of etymological problems is yet to be untangled.

Mongolian etymology :

Proto-Mongolian: *tanaɣa

Altaic etymology: Altaic etymology

Meaning: nose wings, part of face round nose

Russian meaning: крылья носа, часть лица вокруг носа

Written Mongolian: tanaɣa

Buriat: xamaraj tanā

Kalmuck: tanā

Comments: KW 378.

Nostratic etymology :

Eurasiatic: *ṭVŋV

Meaning: nose, tip of nose

Altaic: *t`ā́nV ( ~ -ē-) (?)

Uralic: *täŋV

Uralic etymology :

Number: 1052

Proto: *täŋV

> Nostratic: > Nostratic

English meaning: tip of nose

German meaning: (unbehaarte) Nasenspitze

Saam (Lapp): diegŋâ -ŋ- ~ digŋâ -ŋ- 'tip of muzzle of dog, wolf, cat' (N), tikŋa (L) 'die äußerste, haarlose Spitze der Tiernase, Schnauze(nspitze)' ?

Nenets (Yurak): tina (O) 'unbehaarte Nasenspitze mit den Nüstern bei Tieren, wie Hund, Polarfuchs, Wolf, Bär' ?