Proto-Altaic: *mi̯uktu ( ~ -i)
Meaning: stump, horn foundation
Russian meaning: пень, основание рогов
Comments: The old deriving stem is perhaps preserved in Mong. muqur, moɣutur 'blunt, hornless', MMong. muɣular id., Khalkha moxo-, Kalm. muxǝ- 'to make blunt' etc. (whence numerous TM forms, see ТМС 1, 552-553). Some of them (especially suffixless forms or forms with -l-, like Evk. muku- 'to become blunt', Sol. moxō 'blunt', Evn. muk- 'to chop off') may actually be genuine, see Poppe 55. In Mong. cf. also the fronted variant mökü 'blunt' (KW 265).
