ölmää

See also: olmaa

Gagauz

Cyrillic ӧлмӓӓ

Alternative forms

  • iolmeac (pre-1950's spelling)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish اولمك (ölmäk), from Proto-Turkic *öl-.[1] Comapre Turkish ölmek, Azerbaijani ölmək, Old Turkic 𐰇𐰠 (öl-), Crimean Tatar ölmek.[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /y̯ølˈmæː/
  • Hyphenation: öl‧mää

Verb

ölmää (third-person singular present simple ölär or ölür)

  1. (intransitive) to die, to pass away
    bubası birdän ölmüşhis dad suddenly died

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ölmek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  2. ^ András Rajki, A Concise Gagauz Dictionary with etymologies and Turkish, Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar and Turkmen cognates, 2007

Further reading

  • N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “öлмää”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 354
  • Ciachir, Mihail (1938) “iolmec”, in Dicționar gagauzo (tiurco)–român pentru gagauzii din Basarabia (in Romanian), Chișinău, page 65
  • Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “ölmää”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 126