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yüzmek

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Turkish

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یوزمك (yüzmek, to swim, float), from Proto-Turkic *yüŕ- (to swim, float).

Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰘𐰇𐰕 (yüz-, to swim), Karakhanid [script needed] (yüzmēk, to swim), Azerbaijani üzmək (to swim), Bashkir йөҙөү (yöźöw, to swim), Kazakh жүзу (jüzu, to swim), Kyrgyz жүзүү (jüzüü, to swim, float), Turkmen ýüzmek (to swim, float, sail), Uyghur ئۈزمەك (üzmek, to swim), Uzbek yuzmoq (to swim).

Verb

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yüzmek (third-person singular simple present yüzer)

  1. (intransitive) to swim
    Sıcak günlerde havuzda yüzmeyi severim.I like swimming in the pool on warm days.
  2. (intransitive) to float
Conjugation
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See also

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Etymology 2

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Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یوزمك (yüzmek, to skin, flay), from Proto-Turkic *yüŕ- (to peel off (skin), to skin).[1]

Compare Mongolian зорох (zorox, to plane, shave, chip). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (yüzmēk, to skin).

Verb

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yüzmek (third-person singular simple present yüzer)

  1. (transitive) to skin, flay
    Ölü koyunun derisini yüzdü.He/she flayed the skin from the dead sheep.
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References

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

Further reading

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  • yüzmek in Reverso (Turkish-English)