The article is dedicated to the consideration of some questions to etymology and history of words importance, word-combinations, phraseologisms and historical sayings of the engineer-railwayman, historian M. Tynyshpaev. It is analyzed mainly onomastic units, used in the works of M. Tynyshpaev such as etnonyms, toponyms, аntroponyms and hydronyms, bound not only with Kazakh history but also as a whole turkic people. The analysis is realized with the consideration of such criterion of etymology as: phonetic, lexical-semantic and grammatical. As a result of research the author is maintained that the process of the discovery of etymology and origin of history of words importance (semantic derivation) determine by historical fact influences upon one people on another as a result of close location territory of their residences.