*tāp-
Meaning:
to trample
This is a reconstructed root, not an independently attested bare Old Turkic verb. Egorov connects the sole noun with *tap-/tapta-, whereas Räsänen treats tap as onomatopoeic.
Word family
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| Language | Cognate |
|---|---|
| Turkmen | The cognate has disappeared from this language. |
| Turkish (Azerbaijan) | The cognate has disappeared from this language. |
| Turkish (Türkiye) | The cognate has disappeared from this language. |
| Salar | The cognate has disappeared from this language. |
| Gagauz | The cognate has disappeared from this language. |
| Crimean | The cognate has disappeared from this language. |
| Uyghur | The cognate has disappeared from this language. |
| Uzbek | The cognate has disappeared from this language. |
| Kazakh | The cognate has disappeared from this language. |
| Nogai | The cognate has disappeared from this language. |
| Siberian Tatar | The cognate has disappeared from this language. |
| Kyrgyz | The cognate has disappeared from this language. |
| Altai | The cognate has disappeared from this language. |
| Alan | The cognate has disappeared from this language. |
| Kumyk | The cognate has disappeared from this language. |
| Tatar | The cognate has disappeared from this language. |
| Bashkir | The cognate has disappeared from this language. |
| Tıva | The cognate has disappeared from this language. |
| Khakas | The cognate has disappeared from this language. |
| Sakha (Yakut, Dolgan) | The cognate has disappeared from this language. |
| Khalaj | The cognate has disappeared from this language. |
| Chuvash | The cognate has disappeared from this language. |
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Translations
German:
trampeln, mit Füßen treten
Kazakh:
(көне) тапау, таптау, жаншу, табан асты ету
Russian:
растаптывать, топтать
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
tapdalamaq, ayaqlamaq
Turkish (Türkiye):
ayaklamak
Bibliography 3
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Sergei Starostin, Anna Dybo, Oleg Mudrak (2003) Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages1355–13561355–1356
*táp῾V to stamp, press: Tung. *dap-; Mong. *dabta-; Turk. *dāp-.
PTung. *dap- to flatten, press (сплющивать, прижимать): Evk. dapča-; Ork. dapāw-.
◊ ТМС 1, 197-198.
PMong. *dabta- to forge, hammer (ковать, молотить): MMong. dabta- (SH) ; dabši- ‘to knock, hit’ (SH); WMong. dabta- (L 213); Kh. davta-; Bur. dabta-; Kalm. dawt- KPC 175; Ord. dabta-; Dag. dabete- (MD 131); S.-Yugh. dapta- (MGCD 186).
◊ Mong. > Kirgh. tapta- etc.; Evk. dapta- etc., Doerfer MT 101.
PTurk. *dāp- to trample (топтать): Karakh. tabrɨ- ‘to jump about (about a camel)’ (MK); Turkm. dābala- ‘to trample’ (of a camel), dābɨra- ‘to ride, stamp’; Tat. tapa- (dial.); Bashk. tapa-; Kaz. tapa-; KKalp. tapɨlda-; Oyr. tabar- ‘to fall upon’; Yak. tabɨj- ‘to hit with front hooves’ (of a horse); Dolg. tabɨn- ‘to scratch with a hoof’.
◊ EDT 443, ЭСТЯ 3, 111-112, Stachowski 214. The Tat., Kaz., Bashk. and KKalp. reflect a variant *dapa- (or perhaps expressive *dāppa-, to account for the lack of voicing -p- > -b- after a long vowel).
‖ Poppe 104, Menges 1982, 105, Дыбо 13. A Western isogloss. There exists also a not quite reliable variant *t῾abi id. (Mong. tab ‘clinch, rivet’; TM *tabi- ‘to forge’ (ТМС 2, 149, with yet another variant *tabi-ti- > *tapti- / *tipti- id., see ibid. and ТМС 2, 186). -
M Räsänen, I Kecskeméti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen462a462a
čag. kom. tap ’Lautnachahmung des Schlagens, Klopfens’; kom. kaz. usw. tap-ta ’stampfen, schmieden’, čuv. topta, tupta, čag. krč. tap-la ’schmieden’; šor. tap-ty ’Leiter’, tel. tapty ’Stufe’
Onom. -
В. Г. Егоров (1964) Этимологический словарь чувашского языкаentry ТУПАН, complete own article
тупан 1. «ступня», «подошва»; 2. «полоз»; 3. диал. «обод»; МК, чаг., казах., к. калп., ног., тур., тат., башк., хак. табӓн, кирг., алт. В, ойр. таман, уйг. тапан, туркм. дабан, узб. товон, тув. тавангай «ступня», «подошва». От глагола тan, тапта «топтать».
