Ottoman Turkish edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (sür-, to drive away, spend time, go ahead, advance (of time)), from Proto-Turkic *sǖr- (to drive away).[1]

Verb edit

سورمك (sürmek)

  1. to drive
  2. to drive away
  3. to banish
  4. to push along, propel
  5. to advance, push forward
  6. to send, exile, expel
  7. to sell (goods) on (the market)
  8. to circulate
  9. to continue, go on, last
  10. to plow (a field).
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  • Turkish: sürmek

Etymology 2 edit

From Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (sür-, to rub), from Proto-Turkic *sür(-t)- (to rub, smear).[2] Cognate with سورتمك (sürtmek).

Verb edit

سورمك (sürmek)

  1. to rub on something, to spread, smear
Descendants edit

References edit

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