In Turcology studies, the main focus has been on literary works, and mostly works with high literary value have been the subject of language studies. Yet, works on daily life provides us with extremely valuable information in our endeavor to trace the etymology of words. This type of texts, however, few and far between, possibly because they were not valued enough in their times. The meaning of the verb depi-/tepi in the dictionaries in Anatolian and Azerbaijani dialects has been determined as “to drain, to dry up” based on its use in non-literary texts of Old Anatolian Turkish and in various field dictionaries. Based on these findings, a revision of the related articles in the Tarama Sözlüğü has been proposed, stating that the words tepiz/depiz, depit are derived from the verb tepi-. A few reading errors in the Burhan-ı Katı publication regarding the word depiz have been corrected, revealing that the phrase tepiz yük in Divanu Lügati’t-Türk signified “dry load”, whereas tepizlik bol- in Kutadgu Bilig signified “occurrence of dryness, infertility”. It has been suggested that contrary to what Tietze says ‘with caution as verb citations are very rare’, the word depser- is not a derivation from Persian, but a derivation of the same verb (tepi), and that the origins of the words tepir, which has been claimed to be borrowed from Armenian and tepsi, which has been claimed to be borrowed from Persian or Chinese, can actually be traced back to the verb tepi-. In the texts of the Uygur and Karahanlı period, words such as tepirgen/topurgan "thorn desert, dust-covered, barren, clay soil ", tüvır- /tüvri- "freezing, hardening, becoming strict" can also be connected to the same root. If the cognate words are not evaluated by bringing together, we will probably make the mistake that the oldest, most frequently used words are quoted.