öykünmek
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Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Turkic *ödkün- (“to imitate”), cognate with Yakut үтүгүн (ütügün, “to imitate”).
Verb
[edit]öykünmek (third-person singular simple present öykünür)
- to imitate; emulate
- Synonym: taklit etmek
- (linguistics) to calque
- Dil Devrimi döneminde Fransızca, Farsça ve Arapçadan bir sürü yeni sözcük öykünülmüştü. Bu ise yapılan hatalardan biriydi.
- During the language revolution, lots of neologisms were calqued from French, Persian and Arabic. And this was one of the mistakes that were done.