چاتاللانمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From چاتال (çatal, “fork, prong”) +‎ ـلنمق (-lanmak, suffix forming passive infinitives from stems ending in back vowels).

Verb

چاتاللانمق • (çatallanmak)

1. (intransitive) to become forked, or bifurcated

Descendants

• Turkish: çatallanmak
• → Armenian: չաթալլանմիշ (čʻatʻallanmiš)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çatallanmak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 898
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چاتاللانمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 457