uyumak
Appearance
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اویومق (uyumak, “to sleep”), from Proto-Turkic *ū-dï- (“to sleep”), derived from Proto-Turkic *ū (“sleep”) preserved in Yakut, Dolgan and Khalaj.[1] See Yakut уу (uu, “sleep”).
Pronunciation
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[edit]uyumak (third-person singular simple present uyur)
- (intransitive) to sleep; to go to sleep
- (intransitive, figuratively) to be unaware of what's going on
Conjugation
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*ū-dɨ-k-la-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden; Cologne; New York: E.J. Brill