توتوشماق

Chagatai

Etymology

By surface analysis, توتـ (tut-, “to grasp”) +‎ ـوش (-uš, “reciprocal suffix”)

Verb

توتوشماق (tutušmaq)

  1. (reciprocal) to grasp each other, to seize each other
    1. to wrestle

Derived terms

  • توتوشتورماق (tutušturmaq, “to cause to wrestle”)

Descendants

  • Uzbek: tutishmoq

Further reading

  • Shaw, Robert Barkley (1880) “توتوشماق”, in “Turki-English vocabulary” (chapter 2), in A Sketch of the Turki Language as Spoken in Eastern Turkistan (Káshgar and Yarkand)‎[1], Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, page 72
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