Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Ottoman Turkish صویمق (soymak, to strip, undress, rob), from Proto-Turkic *soy- (to skin, peel).[1]

Cognate with Old Turkic -𐰽𐰆𐰖 (soy-, to skin, strip), Azerbaijani soymaq (to undress), Bashkir һуйыу (huyıw, to skin, kill), Chuvash сӳме (süme, to tear, strip off, rob), Crimean Tatar soymaq (to kill a cow or sheep), Khakas сойарға (soyarğa, to strip off), Kyrgyz союу (soyuu, to kill), Turkmen soýmak (to skin), Uyghur سويماق (soymaq, to slaughter, skin), Uzbek so'ymoq (to butcher, slay).

Verb edit

soymak (third-person singular simple present soyar)

  1. (transitive) to peel
  2. (transitive) to skin
  3. (transitive) to undress, to strip
  4. (transitive) to rob

Conjugation edit

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References edit

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