sölenmää

Gagauz

Etymology

By surface analysis, söle- +‎ -n. Compare Turkish söylenmek.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sølenˈmæː/
  • Hyphenation: sö‧len‧mää

Verb

sölenmää (third-person singular simple present sölener)

  1. (intransitive) to be said
  2. (reflexive) to talk to oneself
  3. (reflexive, figurative) to mumble, to grumble, to murmur complaints

Further reading

  • Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “sölenmää”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 147
  • N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “сöленмää”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 431