ayıtmak

Turkish

Alternative forms

  • eyitmek, eytmek, aytmak

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ایتمك (eyitmek), آیتمق (ayıtmak), from Old Anatolian Turkish ایتمك (eyitmek), آیتمق (ayıtmaq), ایتمك (eytmek) from Proto-Turkic *āyït-, causative of *āy- (“to say”).

cognates

Cognate with Tatar әйтү (äytü, “to say”), Kazakh айту (aitu, “to say”), Kyrgyz айтуу (aytuu, “to say”), Crimean Tatar aytmaq (“to say”), Uzbek aytmoq (“to say”), Uyghur ئېيتماق (ëytmaq, “to say”), Kumyk айтмакъ (aytmaq, “to say”), dialectal Khakas айт- (ayt-, “to say”), айыт- (ayıt-, “to sing”), Yakut ыйыт- (ıyıt-, “to ask”), Chuvash ыйт (yjt, “to ask”).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: a‧yıt‧mak

Verb

ayıtmak

  1. (archaic or dialectal) to tell, to say

Synonyms

Further reading

  • “ayıtmak”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982
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