tep

1) tap, pat, strike slightly 2) blow, slap, slapdash 3) sound of rapping, heart beat/sound

- Tepandina pitikan wan dixe xew: Patting babies make them sleep.

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰAbʰ- “to beat, strike, stun, be speechless”,

Luwian tupai “to beat”,
Hittite tupi “to beat”,
Proto-Germanic *dab- “to strike”
Old French taper "tap, rap, strike",
Gallo-Roman or Germanic source ultimately imitative of the sound of rapping,
Icelandic tappa, tapsa, tæpta “to tap”,
Old French taper “tap, rap, strike”,
English tap “strike lightly”, from notion of a tap on the shoulder.

demançe, tebance, tepandin,

Turkish verbs starting with tep-, “to hit, kick”, *tep-, *dēp- “to stamp, tramp”, eg. tepmek, tepinmek, tepkime, tepik, tepelemek, tabanca "gun" etc.