Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish آجیقمق (acıkmak, to be hungry, to hunger), from Proto-Turkic *ạ̄č-ïk-, intensive form of *ạ̄č- (to hunger). Cognate to (hunger, hungry). Turkic cognates include Old Turkic 𐰀𐰲 ( /⁠āč-⁠/, to hunger), Karakhanid [script needed] (ačïk-, to writhe with hunger), Bashkir асығыу (to hunger), Kazakh ашығу (aşyğu, to hunger), Tatar ачыгу (açığu, to hunger), Turkmen ājykmak (to hunger), Uzbek ochiqmoq (to hunger), Yakut аас (aas, to hunger).

/t͡ʃ/ to /d͡ʒ/ after the succeeding vowel due to original long vowel in the first syllable, compare also conjugated forms of (hunger, hungry) to observe the same instance.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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acıkmak (third-person singular simple present acıkır)

  1. (intransitive) to hunger; be hungry, feel hunger, feel peckish

Conjugation

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References

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  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “açık-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 23