ایتمك

See also: ایتمک and ائتمک

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ēt-.

Alternative forms

• (rare) اتمك (etmek)

Verb

ایتمك • (etmek) (third-person singular simple present ایدر (eder))

1. to do, to make
2. (auxiliary verb) Forms active verbs from nouns, especially Arabic verbal nouns.

   Synonym: ـلامق (-lamak, -lemek)

Descendants

• Turkish: etmek

Etymology 2

From Proto-Turkic *it- (“to push, hit”).

Verb

ایتمك • (itmek) (third-person singular simple present ایتر (iter))

1. to push, to propel

Descendants

• Turkish: itmek

Etymology 3

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish ایتمك (eyitmek), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *āy-.

Alternative forms

• (later) آیتمق (ayıtmak)

Verb

ایتمك • (eyitmek) (third-person singular simple present ایتر (eyitir))

1. (obsolete) to tell, to say

Notes

ایتمك (eyitmek, “to say”) is displaced by دیمك and سویله‌مك around the 15th and 16th centuries.

References

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ایتمك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 581
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ایتمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 288
• Redhouse, J. W., Wells, Charles (1880) Redhouse's Turkish Dictionary, in Two Parts, English and Turkish, and Turkish and English, 2nd edition, London: Bernard Quartch, 15 Piccadilly, page 448