değirmen
See also: degirmen
Turkish
editEtymology
editInherited from Ottoman Turkish دگرمن (değirmen), ultimately a derivation of Proto-Turkic *degir- (“to spin”), from *deg- (“round”);[1] equivalent to devir- + -men.
Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (tegirmen, “mill”), Kazakh диірмен (diırmen), Bashkir тирмән (tirmən), Azerbaijani dəyirman, etc.
Compare also devir- (“to overturn”), dön- (“to turn”), tekerlek (“wheel”) from the same root.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editdeğirmen (definite accusative değirmeni, plural değirmenler)
Declension
editReferences
edit- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*deg-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill