туму

Southern Altai

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *tumagu. Compare to Kyrgyz тумоо (tumoo), etc.

Noun

туму • (tumu)

1. fever

Alternative forms

• тумуу (tumuu)

Synonyms

• безгек (bezgek)

References

• 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 1521