Clauson (1972)
An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish
p. 512-513
to:n (d-)
‘garment, clothing’. S.i.a.m.l.g., in most modern languages for ‘outer garment, overcoat’; in SW Az., Osm. don; Tkm. do:n. It has been usual for some years to describe this as a l.-w. fr. Saka tauna ‘clothing’, but it is unlikely that the Turks would have had no native word for ‘clothing’, and there are difficulties about the initial sound; the resemblance is therefore prob. due to coincidence. Türkü viii (tonsız, q.v.): viii ff. Man. ton ‘clothing’ (i.e. everything that a man is wearing) M I 5, 13; 7, 11-14: Uyğ. viii ff. tonnuğ biti ‘a body louse’ (lit. clothing louse) M I 8, 14: Bud. ton ‘clothing’ common U II 15, 13; III 38, 17; PP 76, 1; Sanskrit vastrā ‘clothing’ ton TT VIII D.11; bard ditto ton kedim (khetim) do. 38: Civ. ton ‘clothing’ common TT I 149; VII 26, 10; 38, 10 (biç-), etc.; VIII I.20; USp. passim: Xak. xi to:n al-ṯawb ‘clothing’ Kaş. III 137; over 100 o.o.: KB 84 (tul); 474 (2 at): xiii(?) At. könilik tonın ked . . . kedim ton talusı könilik tonı ‘put on the clothing of uprightness . . . the clothing of uprightness is the choicest of (all) clothing (Hend.)’ 167-8; Tef. kedim ton 309: xiv Muh. al-ṯawb to:n/to:n Mel. 10, 10-11; Rif. 83: Çağ. xv ff. ton giyecek . . . qaftan ma‘nāsına ‘wearing apparel, outer robe’ Vel. 224 (quotn.); ton qabā ‘garment’ San. 186v. 26 (quotn.): Xwar. xiii ton bağı ‘belt’ ‘Ali 21: xiv ton ‘clothing’ Qutb 182; MN 62, etc.: Kom. xiv ‘garment’ ton CCI; Gr.: Kıp. xiii al-farwa ‘a fur garment’ (kürk; also called) to:n, which is a generic term for ‘clothing’ (al-malbūs) Hou. 19, 12: xiv ton al-ṯawb İd. 67: xv al-malūṭa ‘cloak’(?) ton Kav. 63, 17; Tuh. 34a. 13; ṯawb ton do. 10b. 13: Osm. xiv ff. don (common in xiv, sporadic later)/ton ‘clothing’; c.i.a.p. TTS I 217; II 314; III 204; IV 236.