Where does “тамырчы” come from?

тамырчы (Kyrgyz) comes from Kyrgyz тамыр, from Proto-Turkic tämür.

тамырчы (Kyrgyz): healer, traditional medicine practitioner

Definitions

  1. healer, traditional medicine practitioner

Ancestry of “тамырчы”, step by step

тамырчы traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Kyrgyz тамыр

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Kyrgyzтамырroot of plants
2Proto-Turkictämür

via Kyrgyz чы

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Kyrgyzчы
Every word from Proto-Turkic tämür