Turkish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اینمك (enmek), from Proto-Turkic *ēn- (to go down). Cognate to Old Turkic 𐰤 (en, to go down, descend).[1]

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Verb

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inmek (third-person singular simple present iner)

  1. (intransitive) to go down, come down, descend
    Adı çıkmış dokuza, inmez sekize.Give a dog a bad name and hang him (literally, “His/her/their name has climbed to nine; it won't come down to eight.”)
  2. (intransitive) to get off (an airplane, bus, ship, train); to get out of (a car); to dismount (from a horse)
    Atından indi.He/she dismounted from his/her horse.
  3. (intransitive) to land (at)
    Uçak havaalanına indi.The airplane landed at the airport.
  4. (intransitive) to recede, diminish, decrease, die down

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References

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