emmek

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Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish اممك (emmek, to suck, imbibe by sucking), from Proto-Turkic *em-mek (to suck).[1]

Cognate with Karakhanid اَمّاكْ (emmēk, to suck), [script needed] (emig, breast), Old Uyghur [script needed] (emig, breast), Azerbaijani əmmək (to suck), Bashkir имеү (imew, to suck), Chagatai [script needed] (émmek, to suck), Chuvash ӗмме (ĕmme, to suck), Kazakh ему (emu, to suck), Khakas эмерге (emerge, to suck), Kipchak [Arabic needed] (em-, to suck), Kyrgyz эмүү (emüü, to suck), Southern Altai эмер (emer, to suck), Tatar имү (imü, to suck), Turkmen emmek (to suck), Tuvan эмер (emer, to suck) эмиг (emig, breast), Uyghur ئەممەك (emmek, to suck), Uzbek emmoq (to suck), Yakut эм (em, to suck), эмиий (emiiy, breast, nipple).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɛˈmːɛc]
  • Hyphenation: em‧mek

Verb

emmek (third-person singular simple present emer)

  1. (transitive) to suck
    Vampirler kan emen hayalî yaratıklardır.Vampires are imaginary blood sucking creatures.
  2. (transitive) to absorb
  3. (transitive) to milk, mulct, bleed

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*em-ig, *em-ček”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill