şişmek
Appearance
See also: şişmək
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish شیشمك (şişmek, “to swell”), from Proto-Turkic *sīĺč- (“to swell”).[1] With rarely seen /s/- to /ş/- assimilation due to final /ş/. Compare the only other two examples: şaşmak and şiş.
Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (sışıl-, “to swell”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (sış-, “to swell”), Azerbaijani şişmək (“to swell, grow fat”), Bashkir шешеү (şeşew, “to swell”), Chuvash шыҫма (šyśma, “to swell”), Kyrgyz шишүү (şişüü, “to swell”), Southern Altai тижер (tižer), Turkmen çişmek (“to swell”), Salar çişgüsi (“to swell”), Tuvan ыжар (ıjar, “to swell up”), Uzbek shishmoq (“to swell”), Yakut ис (is, “to swell”).
Verb
[edit]şişmek (third-person singular simple present şişer)
- (intransitive) to swell, get swollen; to become distended; to billow (in the wind); to become filled with air
- (intransitive) to get fat
- (intransitive) to get winded, become completely out of breath
Conjugation
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[edit]Related terms
[edit]- şiş (“swelling”)
References
[edit]- ^ Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*č`ī́ĺč`u”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden; Cologne; New York: E.J. Brill