тотты

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Southern Altai

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Persian طوطی (tuti). Compare to Kyrgyz тоту (totu) and Kazakh тоты (toty).

Noun

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тотты (tottï)

  1. parrot

References

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  • Radloff, Friedrich Wilhelm (1893–1911) Опыт словаря тюркских наречий – Versuch eines Wörterbuches der Türk-Dialecte [Attempt at a Lexicon of the Turkic Dialects] (overall work in German and Russian), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1206
  • Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 491