Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Ottoman Turkish توتمك (tütmek, to give out smoke), from Proto-Turkic *tüt(e)- (to smoke).[1]

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (tüt(e)-, to smoke), Bashkir төтәү (tötəw, to smoke), Kazakh түтеу (tüteu, to smoke), Khakas тӱдирге (tüdirge, to smoke), Kyrgyz түтөө (tütöö, to smoke), Turkmen tütemek (to smoke, steam).

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Verb edit

tütmek (third-person singular simple present tüter)

  1. (intransitive) to smoke, give off smoke
  2. (intransitive) (for smoke) to rise
  3. (intransitive, dialectal) to smell (good or bad)

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References edit

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