sekmek
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Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish سكمك (sekmek, “to hop, hobble along, ricochet”), from Proto-Turkic *sēk- (“to jump”).[1]
Cognate with Azerbaijani səkmək (“to hop”), Chuvash сикме (sikme, “to jump”). Compare Hungarian szökik (“to hop”).
Verb
[edit]sekmek (third-person singular simple present seker)
- (intransitive) to bounce
- (intransitive) to hop
- (intransitive) to skip, jump lightly and quickly
- (intransitive) to ricochet; (for a stone) to skip (over water)
- (intransitive) to deviate, or be inconsistent
- (intransitive, figurative) to fail to occur properly or on time
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*sēk-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill