kekelemek
Appearance
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish ككه (keke, “a bird's beak, one who stutters over the letter "ke;" onomatopoeic”),[1] morphologically keke + -le + -mek.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]kekelemek (third-person singular simple present kekeler)
- (intransitive) To stutter, to stammer, especially on palatal sounds.
- (intransitive, figuratively, by extension) To get what one was going to say mixed-up due to nervousness.
Conjugation
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890), “ككه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 324
Further reading
[edit]- “kekelemek”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “kekelemek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2525