ییتمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish یتمك (yitmek, “to get lost”), from Proto-Turkic *yit- (“to stray, get lost”)[1].

Cognates

Cognate with Azerbaijani itmək, Old Turkic 𐰘𐰃𐱅 (yit), Tuvan чидер (çider), Uyghur يۈتمەك (yütmek) and Yakut сүт (süt).

Verb

ییتمك • (yitmek) (third-person singular simple present ییتر (yiter))

  1. (intransitive) to disappear, vanish, be lost, to go missing, or to move out of view
    Synonym: غائب اولمق (ga'yıb olmak)
  2. (intransitive) to go astray, stray, err, to deviate from the path of duty or rectitude
    Synonym: آزمق (azmak)
  3. (intransitive, figurative) to wither, waste away, shrivel up, to lose vigour or power

Derived terms

  • ییتدرمك (yitdirmek, “to make or let go astray”)
  • ییترمك (yitirmek, “to make or let go astray”)
  • ییتیك (yitik, “lost, astray”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: yitmek

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972), “yit-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 885

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