göşegüsi

Salar

Etymology

From Proto-Oghuz *kēbše-, Proto-Turkic *kēb-. Cognate to Azerbaijani gövşəmək, Gagauz gevşemää, dialectal Turkish gevmek, geviş getirmek, Turkmen gäwüş, Old Anatolian Turkish كوشمك (gevşemek).

Pronunciation

• (Ili, Yining, Xinjiang) IPA^(key): /køʃe(ɣysi)/
• (Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA^(key): /kyʃe(ɣysi)/

Verb

göşegüsi (passive, present continuous göşebar, past göşeci)

1. to ruminate

   Hypernym: çenegüsi (“to chew, masticate”)

References

• Potanin, G.N. (1893) “göşegüsi”, in Тангутско-Тибетская окраина Китая и Центральная Монголия (in Russian), page 427
• Poppe, Nicholas (1953). Remarks on The Salar Language. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 16(3/4), 438–477. [1]
• Kakuk, S. (1962). “Un Vocabulaire Salar.” Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 14, no. 2: 173–96. [2]
• Yakup, Abdurishid (2002) “göşegüsi”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎^[3], Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 99