Starostin Sergei, Dybo Anna, Mudrak Oleg, Gruntov Ilya, Glumov Vladimir. An etymological dictionary of Altaic languages. Volumes 1-3

Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2003. — 1556 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 8, Uralic & Central Asia Studies 8). — ISBN: 9789004131538 (set).The dictionary presented below should by no means be regarded as final and conclusive. We have tried to collect all existing etymologies that seem to be semantically reliable and fit the established system of phonetic correspondences. Among the 2,800 etymologies presented approximately half are new, developed by our team during more than 10 years of preparatory work. New etymologies will most certainly follow, while some of those presented will doubtlessly be rearranged or even refuted in the course of future research. The current reconstruction will also inevitably change - as it happened with Indo-European, Uralic and most of the other established language families during the decades of their investigation. Nevertheless, we regard it as a valid starting point, worth presenting to the general academic audience, and look forward for criticism, suggestions and corrections.