köken: Inherited from Middle Persian yʾmk' (jāmag), from Proto-Iranian *yām- (“to hold”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *yámas, *yam- (“to hold”), from Proto-Indo-European *yém-o-s, from *yem- (“to hold”), Northern Luri جۆمںە (cømə), see also Sanskrit यम् (yam, “to sustain”). Compare Old Armenian վարշամակ (varšamak).
köken: From Proto-Turkic *ked-i-m (deverbal noun from *ked-); equivalent to ки- (ki-) + -ім (-ım). Earliest attested in Qarakhanid Turkic. Cognate with Bashkir кейем (keyem), Kyrgyz, Southern Altai кийим (kiyim), Tatar кием (kiyem), Uzbek kiyim (“clothing”), Turkish giyim, etc.
köken: From *kedim (“clothes, clothing”), from Proto-Turkic *ked- (“to put on/wear clothes”). Cognate to Old Uyghur kedim (clothes); Bashkir кейем (keyem), Tatar кием (kiyem), Kazakh киім (kiım), Crimean Tatar kiyim, Kumyk гийим (giyim), Uzbek kiyim, Turkmen geýim, Turkish giyim (“clothes, clothing”), Tofa ім, etc. From кий- (kiy-) + -им (-im).
köken: From *kedim (“clothes, clothing”), from Proto-Turkic *ked- (“to put on/wear clothes”). Cognate with Old Uyghur kedim (“clothes”); Tatar кием (kiyem), Kazakh киім (kiım), Kyrgyz кийим (kiyim), Southern Altai кийим (kiyim), Uzbek kiyim, Turkmen geýim, Turkish giyim (“clothes, clothing”), etc.