yontmak

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Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish یونتمق (yontmak, to cut and chip, to pare down), causative of Ottoman Turkish یونمق (yonmak). The causative form took the place of the original verb. From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Turkic *jōn- (to adze, plane).[1] Related to Old Turkic [script needed] (yon-, to shave, scrape), Azerbaijani yonmaq (to hew, shave) Kyrgyz жонуу (jonuu, to whittle), Uzbek yoʻnmoq.

Verb

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

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