окур

Southern Altai

Etymology

From оку- (oku-), Ultimately merged with Proto-Turkic *okï- and Proto-Turkic *ȫkü-. Compare Kyrgyz окуу (okuu, “to read”), Turkish okumak, Azerbaijani öyümək. Original meaning was "to urge,call".

Verb

окур • (okur)

  1. to vomit (from mouth)
  2. (archaic) to read

References

  • Verbickij, V. I. (1884) “окур”, in Словарь алтайского и аладагского наречий тюркского языка [Dictionary of Altaic and Aladag dialects of Turkic], Kazan, pages 220, 492
  • Sevortjan, E. V. (1974) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Nauka, page 503
  • Axmetʹjanov, R. G. (2015) “УКЫ-У”, in Татар теленең этимологик сүзлеге / Этимологический словарь татарского языка [Tatar etymological dictionary] (in Tatar), volume 2, Kazan: Magarif-Vakyt, →ISBN, page 344
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