Bashkir edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Turkic *sȫn- (to stop burning, fade).[1]

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (sön-, to come to an end, disappear, go out of fire); Kazakh сөну (sönu, to fade away, disappear), Uzbek soʻnmoq (to fade), Turkish sönmek (to fade, go out), Shor сенерге (senerge, to fall, come down), Chuvash сӳнме (sünme, to fade, go out).

Verb edit

һүнеү (hünew) (intransitive)

  1. (fire) to stop burning, extinguish, go out, burn out
    Шәм елгә һүнде.
    Şəm yelgə hünde.
    The candle went out because of the wind.
  2. (source of light) stop emitting light, go out, go dark
  3. (electricity, electric or mechanic device, machine etc.) to stop operating, to switch off, go off

References edit

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