тӳн

Chuvash

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic [Term?]. Cognate with Turkish dön- (“to turn, overturn”), Azerbaijani dön- (“to turn”), etc.

Verb

тӳн • (tün)

1. to overturn, to tip over, to capsize
2. to fall (down), to drop, to collapse
3. (colloquial) to go to bed, to go to sleep
4. (colloquial) to die, to bite the dust

Further reading

• “тӳн”, in Электронлă сăмахсар‎^[1] (overall work in Russian and Chuvash), 1996.