Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Ottoman Turkish اورتمك (örtmek, to cover, wrap, veil, shut), from Proto-Turkic *ört- (to cover).[1]

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (ört-, to cover), Azerbaijani örtmək (to cover, shut), Chuvash витме (vitme, to cover, protect, close), Turkmen örtmek (to cover).

Pronunciation edit

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Verb edit

örtmek (third-person singular simple present örter)

  1. (transitive) to cover; to veil
  2. (transitive) to hide; to conceal, hush up, cover up
  3. (transitive) to shut (a door, a window, a cover)

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References edit

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