çiinemää

Gagauz

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *čayna- (“to chew; to trample”), the same root of Azerbaijani çeynɘmɘk and Turkish çiğnemek.[1]

Verb

çiinemää

  1. (transitive) to trample, tread on, stomp

References

  1. ^ András Rajki, A Concise Gagauz Dictionary with etymologies and Turkish, Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar and Turkmen cognates, 2007
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