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titig denotes both wet mud or mire and clayey earth prepared as a building material. It could be used for mud walls, mud bricks, hearths and pottery. Compounds and derivatives such as titig kärpiç “mud brick”, titig topraq “clayey soil” and titigçi “mud-wall builder, mud-brick maker” show its technical use in earthen construction.

The word continued into Early Middle Turkic as titig “clay”, with the variant tätig, but no secure continuation has been identified in a living Turkic language. Its etymology is unknown, and it is unrelated to the homonymous titig “aching” and to tetig “intelligent, alert”.