Comments:KW 19, Poppe 46, 97. Cf. Manchu ebte ǵaxun 'hunting bird' (perhaps preserving the original shape of the root *eb(a)-, that has elsewhere been irregularly reduced to *ewā- > *wā-). Despite TMN 1, 107, 2, 131, Щербак 1997, 94, there is no reason for assuming Turk. > Mong.
