deyni

Gagauz

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish دكین (dägin), دكن, a derivation from دك (däk), suffixed with the adverbial suffix -in.[1] Compare Turkish değin,[2] Azerbaijani deyin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /djejˈni/
  • Hyphenation: dey‧ni

Conjunction

deyni

  1. to, in order to
    ölmesin deyni doktoru çaarmışlar
    they summoned to doctor to prevent him from dying

Particle

deyni

  1. as
    deyni sölerlär ― as they say

Postposition

deyni

  1. (with dative) for, aimed at
    Synonyms: için, -ä
    sana deyni ― for you
    sizä deyni bir baaşışım var ― I have a gift for you

References

  1. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “değin”, 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), “дейни”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 136
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