etmää

Gagauz

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jetˈmæː/
  • Hyphenation: et‧mää

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish ایتمك (ẹtmek), from Proto-Turkic *ēt-, a later form of *ērt- a derivation from Proto-Turkic *ẹ̄r- (to be).[1][2] Compare Turkish etmek, Azerbaijani etmək.

Verb

etmää (third-person singular simple present edär)

  1. (ditransitive) to do, to commit
    Synonym: yapmaa
    iilik etmääto do a favor
  2. (ditransitive) forms compound verbs when used with nouns
    af etmääto forgive (literally, “to do forgiveness”)
Derived terms
  • afetmää
  • etki
  • kaybetmää

Further reading

  • Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 64
  • N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “etmää”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 180

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (yetmäk), from Proto-Turkic *yẹt-. [3]Compare Turkish yetmek, Azerbaijani yetmək.

Verb

etmää (third-person singular simple present etär)

  1. (intransitive) to be enough, to suffice
    bu bizä etmäz
    this isn't enough for us
  2. (intransitive) to cost
    kiyat eder on kapeyka
    the book costs ten kopeks
Derived terms
  • etär
  • etişmää

Further reading

  • Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 64
  • N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “etmää”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 180

References

  1. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “etmek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  2. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ert-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 202
  3. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yetmek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük