yontmak

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Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Ottoman Turkish یونتمق (yontmak, to cut and chip, to pare down), causative of یونمق (yonmak), from Proto-Turkic *yōn- (to adze, plane).[1] The causative form took the place of the original verb.

Related to Old Turkic [script needed] (yon-, to shave, scrape), Azerbaijani yonmaq (to hew, shave) Kyrgyz жонуу (jonuu, to whittle), Southern Altai јонор (ǰonor, to plain, shave, slice), Uzbek yoʻnmoq.

Verb[edit]

yontmak (third-person singular simple present yontar)

  1. (transitive) to shape sth. by cutting it; to chisel; to hew; to whittle; to dress (stone); to sculpt, sculpture
  2. (transitive) to point or sharpen

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References[edit]

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