Bashkir edit

Etymology edit

From *yiber- (to send), a contraction of the verbal phrase *iye ber- (to send),[1] composed of Proto-Turkic *ɨ̄d- (to send)[2] + Proto-Turkic *bēr- (to give)[3] in an auxiliary grammatical role.

Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (jibär-, to send);[4] Tatar җибәрергә (cibärergä, to send), Kazakh жіберу (jıberu, to send), Kumyk йибермек (yibermek, to send), Kyrgyz жиберүү (jiberüü, to send), Southern Altai ийе бер- (iye ber-, to send), Uzbek yubormoq (to send), Turkmen ibermek (to send).

Verb edit

ебәреү (yebərew)

  1. to send
    Алпамыша, ебәргән хатына яуап-хәбәр булмағас, бик ҡайғырған, ти.
    Alpamışa, yebərgən xatına yawap-xəbər bulmağas, bik qayğırğan, ti.
    Alpamysha was very sad as there was no reply to the letter that he had sent.
  2. to let go
    (transitive)
    Алпамыша атын ебәрә лә, майҙанға яҡын уҡ килеп, көрәш араһына килеп керә.
    Alpamışa atın yebərə lə, mayźanğa yaqın uq kilep, körəş arahına kilep kerə.
    Alpamysha lets loose his horse, comes near the festivity ground and enters the wrestle.
  3. (used as auxiliary verb to denote a semelfactive action)
    Үрге урамда берәү әсе итеп һыҙғырып ебәрҙе.
    Ürge uramda berəw əse itep hıźğırıp yebərźe.
    Somebody in the upper street gave an ear-splitting whistle.

References edit

  1. ^ Sevortjan, E. V. (1974) “и:бер-”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Moscow: Nauka, pages 322-324
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ɨ̄d-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  3. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ɨ̄d-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[2], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  4. ^ Nadeljajev, V. M.; Nasilov, D. M.; Tenišev, E. R.; Ščerbak, A. M., editors (1969), Drevnetjurkskij slovarʹ [Dictionary of Old Turkic] (in Russian), Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, Nauka, page 260