axsamaq
Azerbaijani
Cyrillic | ахсамаг | |
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Abjad | آخساماق |
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *agsa- (“to hobble, limp”). [1]. Cognate with Turkish aksamak, Crimean Tatar aqsamaq, etc.
Pronunciation
Verb
axsamaq
- (intransitive) to limp
- Synonym: taytamaq
- (intransitive, figurative) to stop making progress, lag behind
Conjugation
References
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*agsa-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill