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өркөү

Bashkir

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *ürk- (“to be afraid”).[1]

Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (ürk-, “to startle (of sheep)”);[2] Kyrgyz үркүү (ürküü, “to be frightened of”), Southern Altai ӱркӱӱр (ürküür), Uzbek hurkmoq, Uyghur ئۈركىمەك (ürkimek), Turkish ürkmek.

Verb

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өркөү • (örköw) (intransitive)

  1. to startle, to flee away with fear (of animals)

References

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  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ürk-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  2. ^ Nadeljajev, V. M.; Nasilov, D. M.; Tenišev, E. R.; Ščerbak, A. M., editors (1969), Drevnetjurkskij slovarʹ [Dictionary of Old Turkic] (in Russian), Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, Nauka, page 626
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