инеү

Bashkir edit

Etymology edit

The only reliable cognate is Kazakh ену (enu, “to enter, go in”). Thus, this is a very peculiar regional feature shared by only these two languages.

Generally thought to derive from Proto-Turkic *ēn- (“to go down”).^[1]^[2] However, no adequate explanation has been presented as to how this peculiar semantic transformation ("go down" > "enter") could have taken place, or why only in these two languages but not elsewhere.

Verb edit

инеү • (inew)

to enter

Synonyms edit

кереү (kerew)

Antonyms edit

сығыу (sığıw)

References edit

^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ēn-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
^ Sevortjan, E. V. (1980) “и:н-”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 3, Moscow: Nauka, page 353

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

[2] Sevortjan, E. V. (1980) “и:н-”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 3, Moscow: Nauka, page 353

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