батыу
Bashkir edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Turkic *bat- (“to sink”).[1]
Cognate with Turkish batmak (“to sink, set”), Yakut батылын (batılın, “to sink”), Chuvash пут (put, “to sink, drown”).
Verb edit
батыу • (batıw) (intransitive)
- to sink, submerge
- Ағас һыуға батмай.
- Ağas hıwğa batmay.
- Wood does not sink in water.
- to drown
- get bogged down
- to set, go below the horizon (of heavely bodies)
- Synonym: байыу (bayıw) (the Sun)
References edit
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bat-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill