değirmen
See also: degirmen
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish دگرمن (değirmen), ultimately a derivation of Proto-Turkic *degir- (“to spin”), from *deg- (“round”);[1] equivalent to devir- + -men.
Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (tegirmen, “mill”), Kazakh диірмен (diırmen), Bashkir тирмән (tirmən), Azerbaijani dəyirman, etc.
Compare also devir- (“to overturn”), dön- (“to turn”), tekerlek (“wheel”) from the same root.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [dɛːiɾˈmen]
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: de‧ğir‧men
Declension
Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
References
- Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*deg-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.