менеү

Bashkir

From Proto-Turkic *bīn- (“to climb, mount; mount a horse”).^[1]^[2]

Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰋𐰃𐰤 (bin-, “mount a horse”);^[3] Kazakh міну (mınu, “to mount/ride a horse”), Turkish binmek (“to mount; ride a horse”), Yakut миин (miin, “to mount a horse”), etc.

менеү • (menew)

to rise, go up
to climb, ascend, mount
Мотоциклды ҡалдырҙым да тауға мендем.
Mototsikldı qaldırźım da tawğa mendem.
I left the motorcycle and climbed the mountain.
to mount/ride (a horse)
Мә, ошо ҡолондо ат итеп үҫтер ҙә менеп йөрөрһөң.
Mə, oşo qolondo at itep üśter źə menep yörörhöñ.
Here, grow this foal into a horse and you will ride it.

^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bǖn- (/*bīn-)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
^ Levitskaja, L. S., Blagova, G. F., Dybo, A. V., Nasilov, D. M., Pocelujevskij, Je. A. (2003) “ми:н-”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 7, Moscow: Vostočnaja literatura, pages 67-69
^ 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 100