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Borrowed from Mongolic, from Proto-Mongolic *tokoi (“elbow, river bend”). Such "bend" in rivers naturally created fertile, forested areas, which you can see being reflected in semantics of other Turkic languages. In Kazakh, this word expanded further, now just referring to any forest. Cognate with Bashkir туғай (tuğay, “forest; bushes”), Kyrgyz токой (tokoy, “forest; bushes on flooded…