On the vocabulary of the Volga-Kama Sprachbund
In the Russian etymological dictionary [Anikin 2008: 272-273] there is an entry батмáр counter, locker Sarat. [Dal 1:54], <i>батмар</i>, <i>батмáрка </i>space under the Russian stove where homeware is kept Mord.<ovia> (Dict<ionary of Russian dialects on the territory of> Mord.<ovian ASSR, Saransk, 1978, v.>, I:32// Possiby Turcism. Original Turk. (Tat.?) <i>*batmar</i>/<i>*patmar</i>, derived from <i>bat</i>- submerge, enter can be supposed. But Turkic etymology here is doubtful due to semantic discrepance: Russian word does not carry an idea of sinking, submerging. Later, the welter increased as the material grew by addition of only partly relative forms from Volga-Finnic languages. In the article is suppoused the alternative etymology of the word батмáр counter, locker.