Etymology

somon

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Russian сомон ← bua сомон ← Mongolian ᠰᠤᠮᠤ
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The story

  1. Proto-Mongolic · derived from*sumun“arrow”
  2. Mongolian · derived fromᠰᠤᠮᠤ
  3. bua · derived fromсомон
  4. Russian · borrowed fromсомон
  5. English todaysomon

From Russian сомон (somon), from Buryat сомон (somon), from Mongolian ᠰᠤᠮᠤ (sumu). Ultimately from Proto-Mongolic *sumun (“arrow”).

Words from the same roots

Proto-Mongolic*sumun all →

sum

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.