yürgüsi

Salar

Etymology

Cognate to Turkish yürümek.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jyr(ɣysi)/

Verb

yürgüsi (present yürer, past yürci)

  1. to walk, go
    Gillı yürse yadar, asan yürse yeter.
    Walking fast makes it tired, but walking slowly still gets it there.
    Yel gadan qotsa, bulut aña yürer.
    Wherever the wind blows, the clouds drift there.
    Sen yürdoğo!
    You, walk!
  2. to leave
    Men gelgünçük u yürmiş.
    He had already left before I came.
  3. to leak out (wind)
    Yel yür dosmiş.
    All the air leaked out.
  4. (Aspectual auxiliary verb) Used after another verb to indicate the continuation or progression of an action. The original lexical meaning is weakened, and it mainly serves a grammatical function.
    U yoğmudan neme uzat yürmiş.
    He asked the servant to deliver the food.
    Sen nañ ilan yürbır-i?
    What are you doing wandering around?
  5. to had someone to do something
    Ani duz aldırma yürci.
    He had him go buy salt.

References

  • Potanin, G.N. (1893) “yürgüsi”, in Тангутско-Тибетская окраина Китая и Центральная Монголия (in Russian), page 426
  • 林莲云 [Lin Lianyun] (1985) “yürgüsi”, in 撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar]‎[1], Beijing: 民族出版社: 琴書店, →OCLC, pages 61, 66, 77, 81, 138
  • Yakup, Abdurishid (2002) “yürgüsi”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon[2], Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 132
  • 张, 进锋 (Ayso Cañ Cinfen) (2008) 乌璐别格 (Ulubeğ), 鄭初陽 (Çuyañ Yebey oğlı Ceñ), editors, Salar İbret Sözler 撒拉尔谚语 [Salar Proverbs]‎[3], China Salar Youth League, page 52
  • Ma, Chengjun, Han, Lianye, Ma, Weisheng (December 2010) “yürgüsi”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor, 撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, pages 11, 352