çiğnemek
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Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish چیكنهمك[1][2] from Proto-Turkic *čayna- (“to chew”).[3]
Pronunciation
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Verb
[edit]çiğnemek (third-person singular simple present çiğner)
- to chew
- to trample; to tread on
Conjugation
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890), “چیكنهمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 747
- ^ Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
- ^ Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*čAj-na-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill