sezmek

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Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish سزمك (sezmek, to percieve, discern, make out), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (sez-, to feel, perceive; to think, conjecture), from Proto-Turkic *seŕ-, *sēŕ- (to feel, understand),[1]. Compare Proto-Mongolic *seri- (to wake, notice) (Mongolian сэрэх (serex, to wake up)).

Verb

sezmek (third-person singular simple present sezer)

  1. (transitive) to understand (something) intuitively, sense, feel, perceive, discern

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

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