سكمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *sēk- (“to jump”); cognate with Azerbaijani səkmək, Chuvash сик (sik), Turkmen sekmek and, more distantly, Hungarian szökik.

Verb

سكمك • (sekmek)

1. (intransitive) to hop, jump on one single foot
2. (intransitive) to skip, jump lightly and quickly
3. (intransitive) to skip, ricochet or bounce over a surface

Derived terms

• سكلمك (sekilmek, “to be hopped on”)
• سكمه (sekme, “hop”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: sekmek

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sekmek1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4126
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سكمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 686
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Saltare”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1473
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سكمك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2643
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sek-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سكمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1067