چیكنه‌مك

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • چیكنمك (çiğnemek), چینمك (çeynemek)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čayna- (“to chew”);[1] cognate with Azerbaijani çeynɘmɘk, Kazakh шайнау (şainau), Kyrgyz чайноо (caynoo), Salar çenegüsi, Turkmen çeýnemek and Uzbek chaynamoq.

Verb

چیكنه‌مك • (çiğnemek) (third-person singular aorist چیكنه‌ر (çiğner))

  1. (transitive) to chew, masticate, champ, to crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws
    Synonym: كومك (gevmek)
  2. (transitive) to trample, tread on, stomp, calcate, to crush something or someone by walking heavily on it
    Synonyms: آیاقلامق (ayaklamak), طبانلامق (tabanlamak)

Derived terms

  • لقردی چیكنه‌مك (lakırdı çiğnemek, “to mince one's words”)
  • چیكنتمك (çiğnetmek, “to make or let be chewed”)
  • چیكنم (çiğnim, “chew, one bite”)
  • چیكنمتك (çiğnimtek, “one quantity to chew”)
  • چیكنمتی (çiğnimti, “a thing chewed”)
  • چیكننمك (çiğnenmek, “to be chewed”)
  • چیكنه‌میك (çiğnemik, “masticated food”)

Descendants

  • Gagauz: çiinemää
  • Turkish: çiğnemek

References

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*čAj-na-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

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